“Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

The 'Advertisement' to the 1853 edition.
Books, Coningsby (1844), The Young Duke (1831)

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

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