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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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Ignorance never settles a question.
The microcosm of a public school.
Vivian Grey (1826)
Success is the child of audacity.
The Rise of Iskander ch. 4 (1833)
Duty cannot exist without faith.
Tancred (1847)
Never take anything for granted.
A man's fate is his own temper.
Vivian Grey (1826)
Aristotle, who has taught us most of the wise things we know, never said a wiser thing than that the cultivators of the soil are the class least inclined to sedition and to violent courses.
Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been found that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
London owes everything to its press: it owes as much to its press as it does to its being the seat of government and the law.
Speech at the Printing Trade Festival (1845)
It is knowledge that influences and equalises the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
The palace is not safe, when the cottage is not happy.
Speech to Wynyard Horticultural Show (1848)
News is that which comes from North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point of the compass, then it is a class publication and not news.
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Vivian Grey (1826)
There are Batavian graces in all he says.
Lord Salisbury and myself have brought you back peace, but a peace, I hope, with honour which may satisfy our Sovereign, and tend to the welfare of the country.
A canter is the cure for every evil.
Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.
Vivian Grey (1826)
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