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1804–1881 England
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British politician, novelist, and essayist, serving twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The anniversary of his death on 19 April is known as Primrose Day.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Vivian Grey (1826)
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Endymion (1880)
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
The Young Duke (1831)
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Contarini Fleming (1832)
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
The Young Duke (1831)
Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
The Young Duke (1831)
Protection is not a principle, but an expedient.
The young Prince Leopold has the nose of a fairytale prince who has been enchanted by an evil witch.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public men.
The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
Tancred (1847)
The Services in war time are fit only for desperadoes but, in peace, are fit only for fools.
Vivian Grey (1826)
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Contarini Fleming (1832)
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
Henrietta Temple (1837)
Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.
When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
Tancred (1847)
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
Endymion (1880)
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