Quotations quotations

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◆ The best quote isn't having the most beautiful or the longest words, but the one that matches our feelings when we read it.

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◆ I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson98

◆ Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors

- Ralph Waldo Emerson98

◆ To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgment and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound

- Christian Nevell Bovee98

◆ The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

- John Milton98

◆ She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

- William Somerset Maugham98

◆ Pay attention and listen to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach, for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips

- Bible98

◆ When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it

- Anatole France98

◆ He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors

- Rudyard Kipling98

◆ Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation

- Ralph Waldo Emerson98

◆ To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

- Alexander Smith98

◆ 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 Dietrich98

◆ Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

- Guy Debord98

◆ A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

- Brendan Francis98

◆ The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

- Benjamin Disraeli98