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We moralise among ruins.

— Benjamin Disraeli

More from Benjamin Disraeli

  1. Everything comes if a man will only wait.
  2. London is a modern Babylon.
  3. When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth.
  4. London is a roost for every bird.
  5. He was fresh and full of faith that 'something would turn up.'
  6. The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
  7. The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
  8. The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

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  • society
  • history
  • morality
  • critique
  • loss
  • reflection

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