Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (born Benjamin D'Israeli; 21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881), 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...

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I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

—Benjamin Disraeli

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.

—Benjamin Disraeli

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

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The Americans, who are the most efficient people on earth,… have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on a conversation without giving a moment's reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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He'd mistaken loneliness for independence, and had become so good at closing himself off from the world that it took an e-mail to remind him what it was like to have a real conversation.

—Jennifer E. Smith in This is What Happy Looks Like

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, whom would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

—Stephen Levine

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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

—Elizabeth Drew

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