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Mr Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea,and that was wrong.
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For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class, institution, and species of property in the country. Occasionally they have varied this state of civil warfare by perpetrating some job which outraged public opinion, or by stumbling into mistakes which have been always discreditable, and sometimes ruinous. All this they call a policy, and seem quite proud of it; but the country has, I think, made up its mind to close this career of plundering and blundering.
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I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
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That we may live to see England once more possess a free Monarchy and a privileged and prosperous People, is my Prayer; that these great consequences can only be brought about by the energy and devotion of our Youth is my persuasion. We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
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I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!
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The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
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I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed Two Nations, governed by different laws, influenced by different manners, with no thoughts or sympathies in common; with an innate inability of mutual comprehension.
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You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parliamentary government if you have no party government; and therefore when gentlemen denounce party government, they strike at the scheme of government which, in my opinion, has made this country great, and which, I hope, will keep it great.
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You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment.
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At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.
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Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orator really did lose his virginity.
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I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
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Never complain and never explain.
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Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
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Age
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The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.
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Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
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Agreement
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
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Assassination
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Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
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Attitude
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The conduct of men depends upon the temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims.
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Authors & Writing
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An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
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Boredom
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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
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Bravery
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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
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Business
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It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.
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Chance
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Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
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Books by and about Benjamin Disraeli