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Book Quotes by Benjamin Disraeli
- We cannot learn men from books.
- A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.
- Books are the curse of the human race.
- A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
- A book may be as great a thing as a battle.
- How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and…
- An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
- Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
- You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening.…
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