Benjamin Disraeli

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"All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who can condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character, or illustrates an existence."	Quotations
"At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists."	Peace
"But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day."	Time
"For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering."	Government
"How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct."	Love, Criticism
"I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man."	Marriage
"I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!"	Success
"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct."	Love, Criticism
"Mr Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea,-and that was wrong."	Ideas
"No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married."	Marriage
"Nothing can resist the will of that which will stake its existence upon its fulfilment."	Fear
"Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation."	Quotations
"Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers."	Quotations
"Sir, I say that justice is truth in action."	Justice
"The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract."	Quotations
"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it."	Writing
"The secret of success is constancy of purpose."	Success
"Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends."	Education
"War is never a solution; it is an aggravation."	Anti-Religion, War
"Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead."	Music
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