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The Delight Of Opening A New Pursuit, Or A New Course Of Reading, Imparts The Vivacity And Novelty Of Youth Even To Old Age.

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The Delight Of Opening

Benjamin Disraeli

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The Delight Of Opening A New Pursuit, Or A New Course Of Reading, Imparts The Vivacity And Novelty Of Youth Even To Old Age.

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A New Acquaintance Is Like A New Book. I Prefer It, Even If Bad, To A Classic.

Perseverance And Tact Are The Two Great Qualities Most Valuable For All Those Who Would Climb, But Especially For Those Who Have To Step Out Of The Crowd.

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The Palace Is Not Safe When The Cottage Is Not Happy.

Life Is To Short To Be Small.

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The Character Of A Woman Rapidly Develops After Marriage, And Sometimes Seems To Change, When In Fact It Is Only Complete.

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The Age Does Not Believe In Great Men, Because It Does Not Possess Any.

I See Before Me The Statue Of A Celebrated Minister, Who Said That Confidence Was A Plant Of Slow Growth. But I Believe, However Gradual May Be The Growth Of Confidence, That Of Credit Requires Still More Time To Arrive At Maturity.

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Expediency Is A Law Of Nature. The Camel Is A Wonderful Animal, But The Desert Made The Camel.

If You Establish A Democracy, You Must In Due Time Reap The Fruits Of A Democracy. You Will In Due Season Have Great Impatience Of Public Burdens, Combined In Due Season With Great Increase Of Public Expenditure. You Will In Due Season Have Wars Entered Into From Passion And Not From Reason; And You Will In Due Season Submit To Peace Ignominiously Sought And Ignominiously Obtained, Which Will Diminish Your Authority And Perhaps Endanger Your Independence. You Will In Due Season Find Your Property Is Less Valuable, And Your Freedom Less Complete.

You Cannot Choose Between Party Government And Parliamentary Government. I Say, You Can Have No Parliamentary Government If You Have No Party Government; And, Therefore, When Gentlemen Denounce Party Government, They Strike At The Scheme Of Government Which, In My Opinion, Has Made This Country Great, And Which I Hope Will Keep It Great.

There Is No Wisdom Like Frankness.

Time Is Precious, But Truth Is More Precious Than Time.

All Is Race - There Is No Other Truth.

The Profound Thinker Always Suspects That He Is Superficial.

The Feathered Arrow Of Satire Has Oft Been Wet With The Heart's Blood Of Its Victims.

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A Great Thing Is A Great Book; But A Greater Thing Than All Is The Talk Of A Great Man.

There Are Few Young Women In Existence Who Have Not The Power Of Fascinating, If They Choose To Exert It.

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A Parsimony Of Words Prodigal Of Sense.

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Truth Travels Slowly, But It Will Reach Even You In Time.

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Youth Is The Trustee Of Prosperity.

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An Obedient Wife Commands Her Husband.

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The Most Dangerous Strategy Is To Jump A Chasm In Two Leaps.

News Is That Which Comes From The North, East, West And South, And If It Comes From Only One Point On The Compass, Then It Is A Class; Publication And Not News.

Despair Is The Conclusion Of Fools.

Worry - A God, Invisible But Omnipotent. It Steals The Bloom From The Cheek And Lightness From The Pulse; It Takes Away The Appetite, And Turns The Hair Gray.

A Precedent Embalms A Principle.

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Having The Courage To Live Within One's Means Is Respectability.

Quit The World, And The World Forgets You.

Read No History: Nothing But Biography, For That Is Life Without Theory.

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Positive Thinking

I Think There Is Nothing More Lovely Than The Love Of Two Beautiful Women Who Are Not Envious Of Each Other's Charms.

This Is To Be Observed Of The Bishop Of London, That, Though Apparently Of A Spirit Somewhat Austere, There Is In His Idiosyncrasy A Strange Fund Of Enthusiasm, A Quality Which Ought Never To Be Possessed By An Archbishop Of Canterbury, Or A Prime Minister Of England. The Bishop Of London Sympathies With Everything That Is Earnest; But What Is Earnest Is Not Always True; On The Contrary Error Is Often More Earnest Than Truth.

It Is Useless To Deny, And Impossible To Conceal, That A Great Part Of Europe, The Whole Of Italy And France, And A Great Portion Of Germany, To Say Nothing Of Other Countries - Is Covered With A Network Of These Secret Societies, Just As The Superfices Of The Earth Are Being Covered With Railroads.

Romance Has Been Elegantly Defined As The Offspring Of Fiction And Love.

Happiness Is Only To Be Found In A Recurrence To The Principles Of Human Nature; And These Will Prompt Very Simple Measures.

A Majority Is Always Better Than The Best Repartee.

Difficulties Melt Away Under Tact.

To Tax The Community For The Advantage Of A Class Is Not Protection: It Is Plunder.

Popular Privileges Are Consistent With A State Of Society In Which There Is Great Inequality Of Position. Democratic Rights, On The Contrary, Demand That There Should Be Equality Of Condition As The Fundamental Basis Of The Society They Regulate.

Without Tact You Can Learn Nothing.

Diligence Is The Mother Of Good Fortune.

The Duke Of Wellington Brought To The Post Of First Minister Immortal Fame,-a Quality Of Success Which Would Almost Seem To Include All Others.

There Is Magic In The Memory Of Schoolboy Friendships; It Softens The Heart, And Even Affects The Nervous System Of Those Who Have No Heart.

More Pernicious Nonsense Was Never Devised By Man Than Treaties Of Commerce.

A Man May Speak Very Well In The House Of Commons, And Fail Very Completely In The House Of Lords. There Are Two Distinct Styles Requisite: I Intend, In The Course Of My Career, If I Have Time, To Give A Specimen Of Both.

When I Want To Read A Novel, I Write One.

I Never Deny. I Never Contradict. I Sometimes Forget.

Duty Cannot Exist Without Faith

Whatever They Did, The Elysians Were Careful Never To Be Vehement.

To Supervise People, You Must Either Surpass Them In Their Accomplishments Or Despise Them.

Something Unpleasant Is Coming When Men Are Anxious To Tell The Truth.

Let The Fear Of A Danger Be A Spur To Prevent It; He That Fears Not, Gives Advantage To The Danger.

Money Is Power, And Rare Are The Heads That Can Withstand The Possession Of Great Power.

A Man's Fate Is His Own Temper.

You Will Find As You Grow Older That Courage Is The Rarest Of All Qualities To Be Found In Public Life.

I Must Follow The People. Am I Not Their Leader?

Why, I Say, That To Tax The Community For The Advantage Of A Class Is Not Protection; It Is Plunder, And I Entirely Disclaim It; But I Ask You To Protect The Rights And Interests Of Labour Generally In The First Place, By Allowing No Free Imports From Countries Which Meet You With Countervailing Duties; And, In The Second Place, With Respect To Agricultural Produce, To Compensate The Soil For The Burdens From Which Other Classes Are Free By An Equivalent Duty. This Is My View Of What Is Called "protection."

Every Production Of Genius Must Be The Production Of Enthusiasm.

Enthusiasm For Life

I Am A Conservative To Preserve All That Is Good In Our Constitution, A Radical To Remove All That Is Bad.

The Wisdom Of The Wise And The Experience Of The Ages Are Perpetuated By Quotations.

At Present The Peace Of The World Has Been Preserved, Not By Statesmen, But By Capitalists.

The Constitution Of England Is Not A Paper Constitution. It Is An Aggregate Of Institutions, Many Of Them Founded Merely Upon Prescription, Some Of Them Fortified By Muniments, But All Of Them The Fruit And Experience Of An Ancient And Illustrious People.

War Is Never A Solution; It Is An Aggravation.

There Is No Gambling Like Politics.

The Press Is Not Only Free, It Is Powerful. That Power Is Ours. It Is The Proudest That Man Can Enjoy. It Was Not Granted By Monarchs, It Was Not Gained For Us By Aristocracies; But It Sprang From The People, And, With An Immortal Instinct, It Has Always Worked For The People.

I Will Not Go Down To Posterity Talking Bad Grammar.

Protection Is Not A Principle But An Expedient

No One For A Moment Can Pretend That Printing Is So Great A Discovery As Writing, Or Algebra As A Language.

Ah, Ireland... That Damnable, Delightful Country, Where Everything That Is Right Is The Opposite Of What It Ought To Be.

The View Of Jerusalem Is The History Of The World; It Is More, It Is The History Of Earth And Of Heaven.

A Person's Fate Is Their Own Temper.

Man Is More Powerful Than Matter.

Propriety Of Manners, And Consideration For Others, Are The Two Main Characteristics Of A Gentleman.

Those Who Cannot Themselves Observe Can At Least Acquire The Observation Of Others.

Predominant Opinions Are Generally The Opinions Of The Generation That Is Vanishing.

No Man Is Regular In His Attendance At The House Of Commons Until He Is Married.

Nowadays, Manners Are Easy And Life Is Hard.

One Of The Hardest Things In This World Is To Admit You Are Wrong. And Nothing Is More Helpful In Resolving A Situation Than Its Frank Admission.

Those Authors Who Appear Sometimes To Forget They Are Writers, And Remember They Are Men, Will Be Our Favorites.

Frank And Explicit - That Is The Right Line To Take When You Wish To Conceal Your Own Mind And Confuse The Minds Of Others.

It Is A Great Mistake To Suppose That Bribery And Corruption, Although They May Be Very Convenient For Gratifying The Ambition Or The Vanity Of Individuals, Have Any Great Effect Upon The Fortunes Or The Power Of Parties. And It Is A Great Mistake To Suppose That Bribery And Corruption Are Means By Which Power Can Either Be Ob-tained Or Retained.

Man Is Made To Adore And To Obey: But If You Will Not Command Him, If You Give Him Nothing To Worship, He Will Fashion His Own Divinities, And Find A Chieftain In His Own Passions.

Finality Is Not The Language Of Politics.

The Secret Of Success Is Constancy To Purpose.

If The History Of England Be Ever Written By One Who Has The Knowledge And The Courage,-and Both Qualities Are Equally Requisite For The Undertaking, - The World Will Be More Astonished Than When Reading The Roman Annals By Niebuhr.

The Noble Lord (stanley) Was The Prince Rupert To The Parliamentary Army--his Valour Did Not Always Serve His Own Cause.

England Is A Domestic Country. Here The Home Is Revered And The Hearth Sacred. The Nation Is Represented By A Family,--the Royal Family,--and If That Family Is Educated With A Sense Of Responsibility And A Sentiment Of Public Duty, It Is Difficult To Exaggerate The Salutary Influence It May Exercise Over A Nation.

Moderation Has Been Called A Virtue To Limit The Ambition Of Great Men, And To Console Undistinguished People For Their Want Of Fortune And Their Lack Of Merit.

What Wonderful Things Are Events! The Least Are Of Greater Importance Than The Most Sublime And Comprehensive Speculations.

As For Our Majority... One Is Enough.

My Idea Of An Acceptable Person Is Someone That Is Ready To Accept My Ideas.

Information Upon Points Of Practical Politics.

A Conservative Government Is An Organized Hypocrisy.

Great Revolutions, Whatever May Be Their Causes, Are Not Lightly Commenced, And Are Not Concluded With Precipitation.

The Sweet Simplicity Of The Three Percents.

There Can Be Economy Only Where There Is Efficiency.

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