Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
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"Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel."
"There is no more potent antidote to the poison of an evil imagination than the free and healthy play of the mind upon the works of nature."
"half Christendom worships a Jewess, and the other half a Jew…. Which is the superior race, the worshipped or the worshippers?"
"The unimpaired Purity of the Public Credit, the Maintenance of the Institutions of the Country, and the Increase of the Welfare of the People, are the three great objects of the Conservative Party."
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."
British Prime Minister who built modern Conservative populism; the only PM of Jewish heritage and a celebrated novelist before politics. Closely associated with Lord Salisbury (his Conservative successor as PM). For an intellectual contrast, see William Ewart Gladstone, four-time Liberal Prime Minister — the two alternated as PM four times — Gladstone's free-trade moralism and Disraeli's imperialist pragmatism are the founding poles of British party politics.
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