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Quote by Isaac D’Israeli
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and

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

Other quotes by Isaac D’Israeli

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

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Happiness
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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 DIsraeli

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Imagination
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Isaac D’Israeli
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Other Quotes from
Romance
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She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Romance

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. – Mary Wortley Montagu

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Romance

Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not. – Aleister Crowley

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Romance

Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the fathers curse, mothers moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks. – Emma Goldman

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Romance

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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. – Italo Calvino

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Its one thing to have a relationship, to lay your hands on it, and another to make it continue and last. Thats something I havent talked about much in my comic strips, and its certainly something Im interested in. – Lynda Barry

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