316 ordspråk av Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli
Assassination has never changed the history of the world
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At the present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statements, but by capitalists
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Be amusing, never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
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Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
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Books are the curse of the human race
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But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
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Candor is the brightest gem of criticism
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
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Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
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Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
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