It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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Isaac D'Israeli Quote
“The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.”
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