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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.

— Isaac D'Israeli

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

Curiosities of Literature (1791)

After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.

The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius (1795)

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

Curiosities of Literature (1791)

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

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Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

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Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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