“Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We can not learn men from books.”

—  Benjamin Disraeli

Book V, Chapter 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Vivian Grey (1826)

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British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Pri… 1804–1881

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