Quote #111
All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
More from Benjamin Disraeli
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- When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
- Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
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- A government of statesmen or of clerks? Of Humbug or Humdrum?
- Amusement to an observing mind is study.
- Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for Antiquity, it offers no redr…