Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentlema…

Benjamin Disraeli
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Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon. ✨ Benjamin Disraeli's remarks during Disraeli-O'Connell debate in Parliament, www.victorianweb.org. 1835.
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Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own. ✨ Speech at Guildhall, 9 November 1877, in 'The Times' 10 November 1877.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. ✨ Sybil. Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Book I, Chapter 5, 1845.
Adventures are to the adventurous. ✨ Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches
Damn your principles! Stick to your party. ✨ Attributed to Disraeli and believed to have been said to Edward Bulwer-Lytton, in E. Latham 'Famous Sayings and their Authors' (1904) p. 11
Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon. ✨ Benjamin Disraeli's remarks during Disraeli-O'Connell debate in Parliament, www.victorianweb.org. 1835.

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