It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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Isaac D'Israeli Quote
“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.”
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