Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 1
“The characteristic of the present age is a craving credulity.”
Source: Speech at Oxford Diocesan Conference (25 November 1864), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 105.
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