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Own Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli
- A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
- Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the…
- A person's fate is their own temper.
- Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
- We make our own fortune and call it destiny.
- A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable…
- The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.
- Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will.
- Be thine own privy counsellor.
- The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
- Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
- Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.
- An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
- Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion…
- I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.
- We make our own fortunes and we call them fate
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