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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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Nothing is going on, but everybody is afraid of something.
Endymion (1880)
"Manners are easy," said Coningsby, "and life is hard."
Coningsby (1844)
Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
The sense of existence is the greatest happiness.
Contarini Fleming (1832)
Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.
Henrietta Temple (1837)
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
Amusement to an observing mind is study.
Contarini Fleming (1832)
The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
The Young Duke (1831)
An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.
Endymion (1880)
To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them.
The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
Contarini Fleming (1832)
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
Vivian Grey (1826)
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
Contarini Fleming (1832)
He seems to think that posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that, I suppose, would be a calamity.
Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orator really did lose his virginity.
The Young Duke (1831)
He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
I suppose, to use our national motto, something will turn up.
Popanilla (1827)
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