“But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.”
Source: Sybil, Or, The Two Nations
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Famous Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
“Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.”
“The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.”
Source: Vivian Grey
“Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.”
Source: Contarini Fleming: A Romance
“I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.”
Source: Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography
“Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches
“There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.”
Source: Selected speeches, ed. by T.E. Kebbel
“Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.”
Source: The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches
“The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.”