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Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli

A two-time Prime Minister of England, Benjamin Disraeli followed in his father's footsteps as an author, publishing several novels in his lifetime, including "€œVivian Grey", "The Young Duke"€, "€œHenrietta Temple" and "Venetia"€. His interest in politics was equally strong and he ran for election several times, failing to get elected until 1837. One of his major political themes during …

Date of Birth: December 21, 1804
Date of Death: April 19, 1881
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"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." — Benjamin Disraeli
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"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. " — Benjamin Disraeli
Henrietta Temple (1837) Book 4 chapter 1 Written in a book about a woman who Disraeli had an affair with (Henrietta Sykes). Add Category or Author

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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." — Benjamin Disraeli
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"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action" — Benjamin Disraeli
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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." — Benjamin Disraeli
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"The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example." — Benjamin Disraeli
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"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter." — Benjamin Disraeli
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"Life is too short to be small." — Benjamin Disraeli
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"All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil" — Benjamin Disraeli
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"London is a roost for every bird." — Benjamin Disraeli
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"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." — Benjamin Disraeli
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"Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power." — Benjamin Disraeli
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"A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy" — Benjamin Disraeli
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"Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future." — Benjamin Disraeli
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"The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial." — Benjamin Disraeli
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"The gondola of London." — Benjamin Disraeli
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"Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love." — Benjamin Disraeli
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"The fool wonders, the wise man asks." — Benjamin Disraeli
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"It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being." — Benjamin Disraeli
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"The noble Lord [Lord Stanley] is the Rupert of parliamentary discussion." — Benjamin Disraeli
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"The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity" — Benjamin Disraeli
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