#his

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#attempt #become #beware #endeavoring #fearful

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#history #life #nothing #read #theory

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. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#chieftain #command #fashion #find #give

Assassination has never changed the history of the world. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#changed #history #never #the history of #world

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#had #harder #history #life #past

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#constant #cults #go #history #into

I love Benny Hill. He one of my favourites of aaall time. Like, the way Benny did it, he was just amazing. Just seeing how he put songs together and comedy and the timing and the sketches. He was way ahead of his time. ↗

— Snoop Dogg

#amazing #benny #comedy #did #favourites

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

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