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Benjamin Disraeli

Everything comes if a man will only wait. – Benjamin Disraeli

What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens. – Benjamin Disraeli

Travel teaches tolerance. – Benjamin Disraeli

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own. – Benjamin Disraeli

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. – Benjamin Disraeli

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them. – Benjamin Disraeli

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. – Benjamin Disraeli

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress. – Benjamin Disraeli

Damn your principals. Stick to your Party! – Benjamin Disraeli

A persons fate is their own temper. – Benjamin Disraeli

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief. – Benjamin Disraeli

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy who are as ignorant of each others habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor. – Benjamin Disraeli

It destroys ones nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. – Benjamin Disraeli

The more extensive a mans knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. – Benjamin Disraeli

Justice is truth in action. – Benjamin Disraeli

What is earnest is not always true on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth. – Benjamin Disraeli

I say that justice is truth in action. – Benjamin Disraeli

Travel teaches toleration. – Benjamin Disraeli

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both. – Benjamin Disraeli

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. – Benjamin Disraeli