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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty o...

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

Beware of the man of one book.

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have n...

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The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

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

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

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Isaac D'Israeli

Writer

Born: 1766-05-11

Died: 1848-01-19

Isaac D'Israeli (11 May 1766 – 19 January 1848) received much of his education in Leiden and as early as his sixteenth year began his literary career with some verses to Dr. Johnson. He was the father of the British prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli.More