More from Benjamin Disraeli

  1. Beware of endeavouring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed: these are fearful odds.
  2. Fear makes us feel our humanity.
  3. The Services in war time are fit only for desperadoes but, in peace, are fit only for fools.
  4. There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
  5. The microcosm of a public school.
  6. Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We can not learn men from books.
  7. The fool wonders, the wise man asks.
  8. Variety is the mother of Enjoyment.

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