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Quote by Benjamin Disraeli
The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side

The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I am on the side of the angels. – Benjamin Disraeli

Other quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. – Benjamin Disraeli

Category:
Life
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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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Humankind
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Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs. – Abraham Meyerson

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It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man. – Aeschylus, Agamemnon

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Humankind

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. – Albert Camus

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Humankind

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. – Sydney Smith

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There are no atheists in foxholes. – William T. Cummings

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A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers. – Patrick Kavanagh

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Generalize, Generalizations

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see. – John Burroughs

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My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me. – Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

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