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Quote by Benjamin Disraeli
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without t

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. – Benjamin Disraeli

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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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