“We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.”

— Benjamin Disraeli, book Tancred

Tancred, Chapter 46.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Tancred (1847)

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

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