Quote #99

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.

More from Benjamin Disraeli

  1. Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.
  2. Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orator really did lose his virginity.
  3. Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
  4. We are indeed a nation of shopkeepers.
  5. A man's fate is his own temper.
  6. The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
  7. Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of Grief the blunder of a life.
  8. It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

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