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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.
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Thomas Love Peacock
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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
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Lord Peter Wimsey
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A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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Joseph Roux
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
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The Talmud
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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H. L. Mencken
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Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.
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William R. Alger
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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Andre Malraux
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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Samuel Johnson
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
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Samuel Johnson
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Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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Alfred North Whitehead
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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
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Simeon Strunsky
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He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
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Rudyard Kipling
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I improve on misquotation.
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Cary Grant
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I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.
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Woodrow T. Wilson
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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George Bernard Shaw
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I quote others in order to better express myself.
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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Seneca
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I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
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Clifton Fadiman
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It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
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Tom Stoppard
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Life itself is a quotation.
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Jorge Luis Borges
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Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.
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Christian Nevell Bovee
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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
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Orson Welles
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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Amos Bronson Alcott
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
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Guy Debord
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Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.
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Ihab Hassan
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Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, and think they grow immortal as they quote.
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Edward Young
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Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
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W. I. E. Gates
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That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
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Amanda Cross
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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W. Somerset Maugham
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The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Ambrose Bierce
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The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
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John Morely
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The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
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Robert Benchley
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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Isaac Disraeli
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To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
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Alexander Smith
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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
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James Baldwin
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