More from Benjamin Disraeli

  1. Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
  2. The microcosm of a public school.
  3. Man is not a rational animal. He is only truly good or great when he acts from passion.
  4. The Services in war time are fit only for desperadoes but, in peace, are fit only for fools.
  5. Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.
  6. Beware of endeavouring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed: these are fearful odds.
  7. The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
  8. I hate definitions.

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