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A precedent embalms a principle. - Benjamin Disraeli

A precedent embalms a principle. – Benjamin Disraeli

Other quotes by 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

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

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Knowledge
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Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Failure
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Other Quotes from
Tradition
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The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny mans ability to adapt to changing circumstances. – Stephen Bayley

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Tradition

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new. – Henry David Thoreau

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Tradition

Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves. – Bertrand Russell

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Tradition

Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitutes that fundamental human characteristic of historicity. – Medard Boss

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Tradition

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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance. – Saadi

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I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I dont think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton. – Wallace Shawn

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Education

There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself. – W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up, 1938

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Self

I get my exercise acting as a pallbearer to my friends who exercise. – Chauncey Depew

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