Benjamin Disraeli Quotes About Giving
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I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.
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Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is the coquette who provides all the amusements,--suggests the riding-party, plans the picnic, gives and guesses charades, acts them. She is the stirring element amid the heavy congeries of social atoms,--the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet.
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.
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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 his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.
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It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
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Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.
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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
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Benjamin Disraeli
- Born: December 21, 1804
- Died: April 19, 1881
- Occupation: Former Leader of the House of Commons