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The First Favourite Was Never Heard Of, The Second Favourite Was Never Seen After The Distance Post, All The Ten-to-oners Were In The Rear, And 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 Grand Stand In Sweeping Triumph.

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Benjamin Disraeli

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The First Favourite Was Never Heard Of, The Second Favourite Was Never Seen After The Distance Post, All The Ten-to-oners Were In The Rear, And 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 Grand Stand In Sweeping Triumph.

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Despair Is The Conclusion Of Fools.

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Coalitions Though Successful Have Always Found This, That Their Triumph Has Been Brief.

The Originality Of A Subject Is In Its Treatment.

Increased Means And Increased Leisure Are The Two Civilizers Of Man.

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

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Gentl, I Am A Party Man. I Believe That, Without Party, Parliamentary Government Is Impossible. I Look Upon Parliamentary Government As The Noblest Government In The World, And Certainly The One Most Suited To England.

Posterity Will Do Justice To That Unprincipled Maniac Gladstone - Extraordinary Mixture Of Envy, Vindictiveness, Hypocrisy And Superstition; And With One Commanding Characteristic - Whether Prime Minister Or Leader Of The Opposition, Whether Preaching, Praying, Speechifying Or Scribbling - Never A Gentleman.

Principle Is Ever My Motto, No Expediency.

How Very Seldom Do You Encounter In The World A Man Of Great Abilities, Acquirements, Experience, Who Will Unmask His Mind, Unbutton His Brains, And Pour Forth In Careless And Picturesque Phrase All The Results Of His Studies And Observation; His Knowledge Of Men, Books, And Nature. On The Contrary, If A Man Has By Any Chance An Original Idea, He Hoards It As If It Were Old Gold; And Rather Avoids The Subject With Which He Is Most Conversant, From Fear That You May Appropriate His Best Thoughts.

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

Nonsense, When Earnest, Is Impressive, And Sometimes Takes You In. If You Are In A Hurry, You Occasionally Mistake It For Sense.

I Was Told That The Privileged And The People Formed Two Nations.

She Is An Excellent Creature, But She Can Never Remember Which Came First, The Greeks Or The Romans.

Assassination Has Never Changed The History Of The World.

The Egremonts Had Never Said Anything That Was Remembered, Or Done Anything That Could Be Recalled.

A Protestant, If He Wants Aid Or Advice On Any Matter, Can Only Go To His Solicitor.

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

Nowadays, Manners Are Easy And Life Is Hard.

Friendship Is The Gift Of The Gods, And The Most Precious Boon To Man.

I Pride Myself In Recognizing And Upholding Ability In Every Party And Wherever I Meet It.

Man Is Only Truly Great When He Acts From The Passions; Never Irresistible But When He Appeals To The Imagination.

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

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

No Enemy Is Indeed So Terrible As A Man Of Genius.

Literature Is An Avenue To Glory, Ever Open For Those Ingenious Men Who Are Deprived Of Honors Or Of Wealth.

The Gondola Of London [a Hansom].

That Soul-subduing Sentiment, Harshly Called Flirtation, Which Is The Spell Of A Country House.

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

The Best Security For Civilization Is The Dwelling, And Upon Properly Appointed And Becoming Dwellings Depends, More Than Anything Else, The Improvement Of Mankind.

Duty Cannot Exist Without Faith

What Is Earnest Is Not Always True; On The Contrary Error Is Often More Earnest Than Truth.

Yes, I Am A Jew And When The Ancestors Of The Right Honorable Gentleman Were Brutal Savages In An Unknown Island, Mine Were Priests In The Temple Of Solomon.

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

London; A Nation, Not A City.

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Sir, Very Few People Reach Posterity. Who Amongst Us May Arrive At That Destination I Presume Not To Vaticinate. Posterity Is A Most Limited Assembly. Those Gentlemen Who Reach Posterity Are Not Much More Numerous Than The Planets.

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.

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There Is Anguish In The Recollection That We Have Not Adequately Appreciated The Affection Of Those Whom We Have Loved And Lost.

Change Is Inevitable. Change Is Constant.

All Is Race - There Is No Other Truth.

I Have Always Thought That Every Woman Should Marry, And No Man.

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In The Study Of The Fine Arts, They Mutually Assist Each Other.

Gentlemen, The Tory Party, Unless It Is A National Party, Is Nothing.

The More Extensive A Man's Knowledge Of What Has Been Done, The Greater Will Be His Power Of Knowing What To Do.

The Unfortunate Are Always Egotistical.

That Earliest Shock In One's Life Which Occurs To All Of Us; Which First Makes Us Think.

What We Anticipate Seldom Occurs; What We Least Expect Generally Happens.

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Circumstances Are Beyond Human Control, But Our Conduct Is In Our Own Power.

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As A Rule, He Or She Who Has The Most Information Will Have The Greatest Success In Life.

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

Trust Not Overmuch To The Blessed Magdalen; Learn To Protect Yourself.

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The Disappointment Of Manhood Succeeds The Delusion Of Youth.

Knowledge Must Be Gained By Ourselves. Mankind May Supply Us With Facts; But The Results, Even If They Agree With Previous Ones, Must Be The Work Of Our Own Minds.

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The Affections Are The Children Of Ignorance; When The Horizon Of Our Experience Expands, And Models Multiply, Love And Admiration Imperceptibly Vanish.

Judaism Is Not Complete Without Christianity And Without Judaism, Christianity Would Not Exist.

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Party Is Organized Opinion.

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

We Make Our Own Fortune And Call It Destiny.

I Was Told, Continued Egremont, That An Impassable Gulf Divided The Rich From The Poor; I Was Told That The Privileged And The People Formed Two Nations, Governed By Different Laws, Influenced By Different Manners, With No Thoughts Or Sympathies In Common; With An Innate Inability Of Mutual Comprehension.

Eloquence Is The Child Of Knowledge.

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As A General Rule, Nobody Has Money Who Ought To Have It.

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 Tendency Of An Advanced Civilization Is In Truth Monarchy.

The Enterprise Of America Precedes That Of Europe, As The Industry Of England Precedes That Of The Rest Of Europe.

Protection Is Not A Principle But An Expedient

The Art Of Governing Mankind By Deceiving Them.

Seeing Much, Suffering Much, And Studying Much, Are The Three Pillars Of Learning.

We Make Our Fortunes And We Call Them Fate.

A Practical Man Is A Man Who Practices The Errors Of His Forefathers.

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.

We Are Now In Want Of An Art To Teach How Books Are To Be Read Rather Than To Read Them. Such An Art Is Practicable.

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No, It Is Better Not. She Will Only Ask Me To Take A Message To Albert.

Adventures Are To The Adventurous.

Patriotism Depends As Much On Mutual Suffering As On Mutual Success; And It Is By That Experience Of All Fortunes And All Feelings That A Great National Character Is Created.

A Good Eater Must Be A Good Man; For A Good Eater Must Have A Good Digestion, And A Good Digestion Depends Upon A Good Conscience.

The Difference Between A Misfortune And A Calamity Is This: If Gladstone Fell Into The Thames, It Would Be A Misfortune. But If Someone Dragged Him Out Again, That Would Be A Calamity.

Individuals May Form Communities, But It Is Institutions Alone That Can Create A Nation.

What We Call Public Opinion Is Generally Public Sentiment.

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

Twilight Makes Us Pensive; Aurora Is The Goddess Of Activity; Despair Curses At Midnight; Hope Blesses At Noon.

Female Friendships Are Of Rapid Growth.

In Art The Greeks Were The Children Of The Egyptians. The Day May Yet Come When We Shall Do Justice To The High Powers Of That Mysterious And Imaginative People.

Difficulties Melt Away Under Tact.

The Noble Lord Is The Rupert Of Debate.

The World Is Governed By Very Different Personages From What Is Imagined By Those Who Are Not Behind The Scenes.

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World Government

Of All Unfortunate Men One Of The Unhappiest Is A Middling Author Endowed With Too Lively A Sensibility For Criticism.

Grief Is The Agony Of An Instant. The Indulgence Of Grief The Blunder Of A Life.

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.

There Is No Wisdom Like Frankness.

Where Knowledge Ends, Religion Begins.

Enthusiasm Is The Breath Of Genius.

Some Will Read Only Old Books, As If There Were No Valuable Truths To Be Discovered In Modern Publications: Others Will Only Read New Books, As If Some Valuable Truths Are Not Among The Old. Some Will Not Read A Book Because They Know The Author: Others . . . Would Also Read The Man.

The World Is Devoted To Physical Science, Because It Believes Theses Discoveries Will Increase Its Capacity Of Luxury And Self-indulgence. But The Pursuit Of Science Only Leads To The Insoluble.

But What Minutes! Count Them By Sensation, And Not By Calendars, And Each Moment Is A Day.

We Are Indeed A Nation Of Shopkeepers.

Accent And Emphasis Are The Pith Of Reading; Punctuation Is But Secondary.

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 Are Some Silent People Who Are More Interesting Than The Best Talkers.

Characters Do Not Change. Opinions Alter, But Characters Are Only Developed.

A Man's Fate Is His Own Temper; And According To That Will Be His Opinion As To The Particular Manner In Which The Course Of Events Is Regulated. A Consistent Man Believes In Destiny, A Capricious Man In Chance.

What Is Wanted In Architecture, As In So Many Things, Is A Man. ... One Suggestion Might Be Made-no Profession In England Has Done Its Duty Until It Has Furnished A Victim. ... Even Our Boasted Navy Never Achieved A Great Victory Until We Shot An Admiral. Suppose An Architect Were Hanged? Terror Has Its Inspiration, As Well As Competition.

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.

The Jews Are A Nervous People. Nineteen Centuries Of Christian Love Have Taken A Toll.

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

That Fatal Drollery Called A Representative Government.

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The Care Of The Public Health Is The First Duty Of The Statesman.

I Repeat... That All Power Is A Trust; That We Are Accountable For Its Exercise; That From The People And For The People All Springs, And All Must Exist.

I Will Not Go Down To Posterity Talking Bad Grammar.

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

The More You Are Talked About The Less Powerful You Are.

There Is Moderation Even In Excess.

Things Must Be Done By Parties, Not By Persons Using Parties As Tools.

There Is No Act Of Treachery Or Meanness Of Which A Political Party Is Not Capable; For In Politics There Is No Honour.

There Can Be No Economy Where There Is No Efficiency.

I Am A Conservative To Preserve All That Is Good In Our Constitution, A Radical To Remove All That Is Bad. I Seek To Preserve Property And To Respect Order, And I Equally Decry The Appeal To The Passions Of The Many Or The Prejudices Of The Few.

The Indulgence In Grief Is A Blunder.

I Have A Great Confidence In The Revelations Which Holidays Bring Forth.

Great Confidence

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

A Nation, As An Individual, Has Duties To Fulfill Appointed By God And His Moral Law.

Her Majesty Is Not A Subject.

You Have Proved It Is A Very Moral Habit.

I Have Climbed To The Top Of The Greasy Pole!

When Men Are Pure, Laws Are Useless; When Men Are Corrupt, Laws Are Broken.

All Of Us Encounter, At Least Once In Our Life, Some Individual Who Utters Words That Make Us Think Forever. There Are Men Whose Phrases Are Oracles; Who Condense In One Sentence The Secrets Of Life; Who Blurt Out An Aphorism That Forms A Character Or Illustrates An Existence.

He Thinks Posterity Is A Pack-horse, Always Ready To Be Loaded.

We Have Legalized Confiscation, Consecrated Sacrilege, And Condoned High Treason.

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

All Power Is A Trust, That We Are Accountable For Its Exercise.

Were It Not For Music, We Might In These Days Say, The Beautiful Is Dead.

As A General Rule, The Most Successful Man In Life Is The Man Who Has The Best Information.

Damn Your Principles! Stick To Your Party.

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

The Characteristic Of The Present Age Is Craving Credulity.

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Had It Not Been For You, I Should Have Remained What I Was When We First Met, A Prejudiced, Narrow-minded Being, With Contracted Sympathies And False Knowledge, Wasting My Life On Obsolete Trifles, And Utterly Insensible To The Privilege Of Living In This Wondrous Age Of Change And Progress.

It Has Been Said That The People Of This Country Are Deeply Interested In The Humanitarian And Philanthropic Considerations Involved In [the Eastern Question]. All Must Appreciate Such Feelings. But I Am Mistaken If There Be Not A Yet Deeper Sentiment On The Part Of The People Of This Country, One With Which I Cannot Doubt Your Lordships Will Ever Sympathise, And That Is - The Determination To Maintain The Empire Of England.

Nothing Can Resist A Will Which Will Stake Even Existence Upon Its Fulfillment.

Wherever Is Found What Is Called A Paternal Government, There Is Found State Education. It Has Been Discovered That The Best Way To Insure Implicit Obedience Is To Commence Tyranny In The Nursery.

Customs May Not Be As Wise As Laws, But They Are Always More Popular.

I Am Myself A Gentleman Of The Press, And Have No Other Escutcheon.

Christianity Is Completed Judaism Or It Is Nothing.

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