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I’m discovering that everybody is a closet quotesmith. Just give them a chance.
Author: Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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I have laboriously collected this cento out of diverse writers. I have wronged no authors but given every man his own…. Bees do little harm and damage no one in extracting honey; I can say of myself, whom have I injured? The matter is theirs most part, and yet mine…. it becomes something different in its new setting.
Author: Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy
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Collecting quotations is an insidious, even embarrassing habit, like ragpicking or hoarding rocks or trying on other people’s laundry. I got into it originally while trying to break an addiction to candy. I kicked candy and now seem to be stuck with quotations, which are attacking my brain instead of my teeth.
Author: Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, ‘Sources, References, and Notes,’ 1984
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He wrapped himself in quotations – as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Author: Rudyard Kipling
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It’s such a pleasure to write down splendid words – almost as though one were inventing them.
Author: Rupert Hart-Davis
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Classical quotation is a parole of literary men all over the world.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in few words.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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What is an Epigram? a dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Most anthologists of quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters: first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything.
Author: Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort, Maxims, 1825
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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.
Author: Seneca
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine.
Author: Talmud
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A proper collection of quotations is the whole world digested.
Author: Terri Guillemets
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Every son quotes his father, in words and in deeds.
Author: Terri Guillemets
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I swim across a sea of quotes, splashing in the words and riding the waves of wisdom.
Author: Terri Guillemets
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Most collectors collect tangibles. As a quotation collector, I collect wisdom, life, invisible beauty, souls alive in ink.
Author: Terri Guillemets
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Proverbs generalize the verdicts of the world.
Author: Terri Guillemets
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To me, novels are just quotations with a bunch of filler.
Author: Terri Guillemets
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Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats and one always secretes too much jelly.
Author: Virginia Woolf
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There are aphorisms that, like air planes, stay up only while they are in motion.
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
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