Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

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His Christianity was muscular

His Christianity was muscular

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only...

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only...

Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot...

Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot...

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities...

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities...

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...

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat...

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat...

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

Travel teaches toleration.

Travel teaches toleration.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Genius, when young, is divine.

Genius, when young, is divine.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears...

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears...

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant...

Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant...