Isaac D’Israeli Quotes

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

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The three pillars of learning; seeing much, suffering much, and studying much.

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

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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 preface being the porch, or the entrance to a book, should be perfectly beautiful.  The elegance of a porch announces the splendor of an edifice.

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.

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