More from Benjamin Disraeli

  1. Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
  2. The sense of existence is the greatest happiness.
  3. Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
  4. Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
  5. A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite:…
  6. The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
  7. It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
  8. All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

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