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• It is fortunate that Literature is in no ways injured by the follies of Collectors, since though they preserve the worthless, they necessarily defend the good.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Literature, Way, Folly

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• 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 it were, throw a bridge between those two great divisions of the public.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Communication, Bridges, Two

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 407-08, Literary Character of Men of Genius, Miscellanists, 1922.

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• The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches of their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognise his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skilfully shall the whole be disguised.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Art, Style, Genius

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 598-600, Curiosities of Literature, Professors of Plagiarism and Obscurity, 1922.

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• Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Happiness, Men, Literature

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 461, The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius (1795-1822), Chapter XXII, 1922.

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• After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Iron, Age, Golden

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1795 - 1822.

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• Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonize.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Symphony, Mind, Tone

  "Curiosities of Literature". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1791.

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• Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they had stagnated their own cause.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Abuse, Bars, May

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• Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of this pulse,--in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Men, Style, Pulse

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• There is such a thing as literary fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Fashion, Cutting, Literature

  "Curiosities of Literature". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1791.

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• Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Criticism, Candour, Gems

  "Curiosities of Literature". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1791 - 1834.

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• To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Natural, Sentiments, Oneself

  "Curiosities of Literature". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1791.

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• A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Design, Execution, Should

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1795 - 1822.

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• Those who never quote, in return are never quoted.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Return

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• 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 borrowers, not to say a word of the purloiners

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Book, Rats, Common

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 81, Curiosities of Literature, The Bibliomania, 1922.

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• It does not at first appear that an astronomer rapt in abstraction, while he gazes on a star, must feel more exquisite delight than a farmer who is conducting his team.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Stars, Team, Atheism

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• Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Nurse, Solitude, Genius

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• If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Real, Men, Golden

  "Curiosities of Literature". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1791.

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• The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Self, Stubborn, Educated

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• Every work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Feelings, Events, Genius

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, chapter XXV, 1795-1822.

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• An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of social life constitutes the great interests of a luxuriant and opulent age.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Luxury, Age, Pleasure

  "The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius". Book by Isaac D'Israeli. Chapter 8, 1795.

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• Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Latin, Greek, Quiver

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• The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Ornaments, Oratory, May

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• A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be found; and though he may not himself excel in invention, his ingenuity may compose one of those agreeable books, the deliciæ of literature, that will out-last the fading meteors of his day.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Book, Men, Fading

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• It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their money according to their notions, our writers usually furnish their pages rapidly with the productions of their own soil: they run up a quickset hedge, or plant a poplar, and get trees and hedges of this fashion much faster than the former landlords procured their timber. The greater part of our writers, in consequence, have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them; and those who never quote, in return are never quoted!

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Running, Fashion, People

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• Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, and which are taken, too, from the third or the thirtieth hand. Those who trust to such false quoters will often learn how contrary this transmission is to the sense and application of the original. Every transplantation has altered the fruit of the tree; every new channel, the quality of the stream in its remove from the spring-head.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Spring, Taken, Hands

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