Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. ✨ Benjamin Disraeli (…

Benjamin Disraeli
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Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. ✨ Benjamin Disraeli (2016). Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated), p.1562, Delphi Classics
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To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder. ✨ Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Colle … ▶
Fear makes us feel our humanity. ✨ Benjamin Disraeli (2010). Vivian Grey, p.147, BoD – Books on Demand
Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. ✨ To Matthew Arnold, in G. W. E. Russell 'Collections and Recollections' (1898) ch. 23
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves. ✨ Benjamin Disraeli (2016). Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated), … ▶
Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery. ✨ … ▶

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. ✨ Benjamin Disraeli (2016). Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated), p.1562, Delphi Classics

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