Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Quote by Isaac D'Israeli

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

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

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work,...

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work,...

The progress of this famous plant has been something like the progress of truth; suspected...

The progress of this famous plant has been something like the progress of truth; suspected...

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

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

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and...

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and...

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work,...

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work,...

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and...

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and...

The progress of this famous plant has been something like the progress of truth; suspected...

The progress of this famous plant has been something like the progress of truth; suspected...

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful,...

To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful,...

For men are prone to go it blind along the calf-paths of the mind To...

For men are prone to go it blind along the calf-paths of the mind To...

Seeing quotes and thinking, oh thank god im not the only one!

Seeing quotes and thinking, oh thank god im not the only one!

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an...

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an...

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.

Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language