If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

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Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely...

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely...

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it...

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it...

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who...

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who...

Silence is the mother of truth.

Silence is the mother of truth.

Assassination has never changed the history of the world

Assassination has never changed the history of the world

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books...

Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books...

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right...

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right...

Play is the beginning of knowledge.

Play is the beginning of knowledge.

Justice is truth in action.

Justice is truth in action.

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

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

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins

Where knowledge ends, religion begins

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in...

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in...

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Without tact you can learn nothing.