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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

~Isaac D'Israeli

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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

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Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

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Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.

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The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

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The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

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The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

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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 his style.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: May 11th, 1766

Died: January 19th, 1848

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