More from Benjamin Disraeli

  1. What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
  2. The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
  3. Yes, I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole.
  4. Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
  5. In a progressive country change is constant; and the great question is not whether you should resist change which is inevitable, but whethe…
  6. Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
  7. I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual ma…
  8. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

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