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Great Quotes by Isaac D'Israeli
- Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a…
- The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
- An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.
- The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever…
- Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
- Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is that of the…
- The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.
- Miscellanists are the most popular writers among every people; for it is they who form a communication between the learned and the unlearned, and, as…
- After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but…
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