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Benjamin Disraeli was prime minister of the united kingdom (1868; 1874–1880). Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, was a British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a central role in the creation of the modern Conservative Party, defining its policies and its broad outreach. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.”
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“Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.”
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“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”
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“Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.”
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