Benjamin Disraeli Zitate auf Englisch

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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

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There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

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Travel teaches toleration.

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Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

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Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

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The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

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Great countries are those that produce great people.

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Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

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Never complain and never explain.

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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

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A precedent embalms a principle.

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Silence is the mother of truth.

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As for our majority... one is enough.

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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

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Without tact you can learn nothing.

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I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.

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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

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The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.

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Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

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No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

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If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

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I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

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The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

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