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Quote by Benjamin Disraeli
You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. – Benjamin Disraeli

Other quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools. – Benjamin Disraeli

Category:
Peace
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. – Benjamin Disraeli

Category:
Future
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Other Quotes from
Parliament
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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it. – Walter Bagehot

Category:
Parliament

The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country. – Lord Denning

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Parliament

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but its quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves. – Norman Tebbit

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Parliament

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically — while simulating a triumphant march forward — than it is done by the two English Houses of Parliament? – Alexander Herzen

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Parliament

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I saw him… at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength. – Dennis Nilsen

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You come to a point in your life when you really dont care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself. – Evel Knievel

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