John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli. (1804–1881) (continued) |
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| It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. |
| Speech, Jan. 24, 1860. |
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| Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets. |
| Speech, June 3, 1862. |
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| The characteristic of the present age is craving credulity. |
| Speech at Oxford Diocesan Conference, Nov. 25, 1864. |
| 6355 |
| What is the question now placed before society with the glib assurance which to me is most astonishing? That question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence those new fangled theories. |
| Speech at Oxford Diocesan Conference, Nov. 25, 1864. |
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| Ignorance never settles a question. |
| Speech, House of Commons, May 14, 1866. |
| 6357 |
| Individualities may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation. |
| Speech at Manchester, 1866. |
| 6358 |
| However gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity. |
| Speech, Nov. 9, 1867. |
| 6359 |
| The secret of success is constancy to purpose. |
| Speech, June 24, 1870. |
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| The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. |
| Speech, Nov. 19, 1870. |
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| Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. |
| Speech to the Conservatives of Manchester, April 3, 1872. |
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| A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. |
| Speech, House of Commons, March 8, 1873. |
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| A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical |