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

Disraeli, Isaac on Excellence
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"The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them."

Disraeli, Isaac on Fools and Foolishness
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"Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius."

Disraeli, Isaac on Genius
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"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation."

Disraeli, Isaac on Quotations
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"Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love."

Disraeli, Isaac on Romance and Romanticism
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"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing."

Disraeli, Isaac on Books - Reading
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