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And, after all, it is style al...

And, 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.

Isaac D'Israeli 99 quotes

Style! style! why, all writer...

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.

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The delight of opening a new p...

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading,
imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

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Solitude is the nurse of enthu...

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the true
parent of genius. In all ages solitude has been called for--has
been flown to.

Isaac D'Israeli 99 quotes

There is a society in the deep...

There is a society in the deepest solitude.

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The act of contemplation then ...

The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

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Miscellanists are the most pop...

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.

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Great collections of books are...

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.

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The Plagiarism of orators is t...

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 or 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
recognize his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so
skillfully shall the whole be disguised.
- Isaac D'Israeli,

Isaac D'Israeli 99 quotes

The great man who thinks great...

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing
that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

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The golden hour of invention m...

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and
when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the
vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him
as one of themselves--the creature of habits and infirmities.

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The most noble criticism is th...

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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Those who do not read criticis...

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be
criticised.

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There is an art of reading, as...

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an
art of writing.

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The defects of great men are t...

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

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Happy the man when he has not ...

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
[Fr., Heureux l'homme quand il n'a pas les defauts de ses
qualites.]

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But, indeed, we prefer books t...

But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts
better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.

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Time the great destroyer of ot...

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

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Literature is an avenue to glo...

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious
men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

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A nickname a man may chance to...

A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of
calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity.
This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.

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