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- Benjamin Disraeli Mark Twain

A sophistica­l rhetoricia­n, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistica­l imaginatio­n that can at all times command an interminab­le and inconsiste­nt series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself. Benjamin Disraeli When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

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