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Bo Bennett
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There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
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Ambrose Bierce
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Sir Winston Churchill
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
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Henry W. Fowler
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Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
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Amanda Cross
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The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
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C. E. Montague
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To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
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B. J. Gupta
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In order to find a good quotation in a dictionary of humorous quotations, I didn't leave any stone unturned.
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Caldwell O'Keefe
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I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express.
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Sir Winston Churchill
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I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'
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William Feather
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
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POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. iii., Line 103.
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Nor suffers Horace more in wrong translations By wits, than critics in as wrong quotations.
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
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People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
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At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
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I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.
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Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.
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"Quotations are for people who are not saying things worth quoting."
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"I hate quotations." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I hate quotations!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I hate quotations. Tell me what *you* know." -- Emerson
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