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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.
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      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.
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      Individualities may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
          Speech at Manchester, 1866.
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      However gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.
          Speech, Nov. 9, 1867.
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      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