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Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furnitu

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind. – Isaac D’Israeli

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Time the great destroyer of other mens happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor. – Isaac DIsraeli

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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 DIsraeli

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