316 ordspråk av Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli
We moralize among ruins.
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We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
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What Art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.
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What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few
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What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
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What usually comes first is the contract.
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What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.
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What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment.
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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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When I want to read a book, I write one
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When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
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When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken
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When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
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Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to ensure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery
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Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
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