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Two Nations Between Whom There Is No Intercourse And No Sympathy; Who Are As Ignorant Of Each Other's Habits, Thoughts, And Feelings, As If They Were Dwellers In Different Zones, Or Inhabitants Of Different Planets. The Rich And The Poor.

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Two Nations Between Whom

Benjamin Disraeli

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Two Nations Between Whom There Is No Intercourse And No Sympathy; Who Are As Ignorant Of Each Other's Habits, Thoughts, And Feelings, As If They Were Dwellers In Different Zones, Or Inhabitants Of Different Planets. The Rich And The Poor.

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The Indulgence In Grief Is A Blunder.

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Assassination Has Never Changed The History Of The World.

Fame Has Eagle Wings, And Yet She Mounts Not So High As Man's Desires.

Life Is Too Short To Be Little. You Must Enlarge Your Imagination And Then Act On It.

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Our Domestic Affections Are The Most Salutary Basis Of All Good Government.

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The Sympathy Of Sorrow Is Stronger Than The Sympathy Of Prosperity.

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Every Moment Is Travel - If Understood.

Next To The Assumption Of Power Was The Responsibility Of Relinquishing It.

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A Great Person Is One Who Affects The Mind Of Their Generation.

Departure Should Be Sudden.

Christianity Is Completed Judaism Or It Is Nothing.

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Everything Comes If A Man Will Only Wait.

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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.

Destiny Bears Us To Our Lot, And Destiny Is Perhaps Our Own Will.

The Sweet Simplicity Of The Three Percents.

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

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.

There Are Few Positions Less Inspiriting Than Those Of A Discomfited Party.

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