More from Benjamin Disraeli

  1. Amusement to an observing mind is study.
  2. Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
  3. Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
  4. The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
  5. Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
  6. All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
  7. 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:…
  8. When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

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