Quote#Books & Reading
Busied with the tattle of valets and waiting-maids, you accidentally…
Quote byBenjamin Disraeli · 1804–1881
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: 'Letter VII. to Lord John Russell' (30 January 1836), The Letters of Runnymede (1836), p. 56.
English (original)
Busied with the tattle of valets and waiting-maids, you accidentally omitted in your Memoirs of the Affairs of Europe all notice of its most vast and most rising empire. This luckless production closed your literary career; you flung down your futile pen in incapable despair; and, your feeble intellect having failed in literature, your strong ambition took refuge in politics.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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