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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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The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity.
I don't wish to go down to posterity talking bad grammar.
The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Free trade is not a principle; it is an expedient.
"As for that," said Waldenshare, "sensible men are all of the same religion."
Endymion (1880)
Finality, Sir, is not the language of politics.
Information upon points of practical politics.
I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!
Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.
Sybil (1845)
Finality is not the language of politics.
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
Tancred (1847)
Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We can not learn men from books.
Vivian Grey (1826)
Beware of endeavouring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed: these are fearful odds.
Vivian Grey (1826)
You know who critics are?— the men who have failed in literature and art.
Lothair (1870)
If a man be gloomy, let him keep to himself. No one has a right to go croaking about society, or, what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
The Young Duke (1831)
I protest against meeting atrocities with atrocities.
A dark horse, which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.
The Young Duke (1831)
Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Vivian Grey (1826)
To govern men, you must either excel them in their accomplishments, or despise them.
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