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When I want to read a novel, I write one.

— Benjamin Disraeli

More from Benjamin Disraeli

  1. What usually comes first is the contract.
  2. Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
  3. What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.
  4. Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.
  5. We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.
  6. William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.
  7. To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
  8. Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.

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Topics in this quote

  • ambition
  • creativity
  • writing
  • self reliance

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