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Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt. - Isaac D'Israeli
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Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance. - Isaac D'Israeli
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All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime. - Isaac D'Israeli
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. - Isaac D'Israeli
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Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses. - Isaac D'Israeli
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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
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Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius. - Isaac D'Israeli
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The act of contemplation then creates the thing created. - Isaac D'Israeli
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces. - Isaac D'Israeli
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised. - Isaac D'Israeli
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It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us. - Isaac D'Israeli
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. - Isaac D'Israeli
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. - Isaac D'Israeli
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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them. - Isaac D'Israeli
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Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor. - Isaac D'Israeli
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To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination. - Isaac D'Israeli
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