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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

George Bernard Shaw
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A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

Sophocles
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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. -Alfred North Whitehead
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Benjamin Disraeli
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. -Seneca
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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.

Alfred North Whitehead
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He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Rudyard Kipling
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language. -Samuel Johnson
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Samuel Johnson
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A witty saying proves nothing.

Voltaire
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To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations. -C. E. Montague
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

Andre Malraux
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When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Anatole France
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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -Simeon Strunsky
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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

David H. Comins
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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

Edward Young
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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. -Marlene Dietrich
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Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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For men are prone to go it blind along the calf-paths of the mindTo do what other men have done. They follow in the beaten track, and out and in, and forth and back, and still their devious course pursue, to keep the path that others do. -Sam Walter Foss
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A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Brendan Francis
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An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Edwin P. Whipple
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Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? -Philip G. Hamerton
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

Robert Burns
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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.

William Feather
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I didn't really say everything I said. -Yogi Berra
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If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.

Elaine Gill
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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hesketh Pearson
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Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. -Hesketh Pearson
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