Isaac D'Israeli - Curiosities of literature (1791)

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

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The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.

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Whatever is felicitously expressed risks being worse expressed: it is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

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The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

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

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Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

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Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

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

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Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

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It is generally supposed that where there is no Quotation, there will be found most originality.

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Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles.

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