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 A favorite quote? That's like having a favorite page of the encyclopedia
  Benjamin Disraeli

 A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

 A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

 A good quotation gets out the mental screwdriver and adjusts the setscrew

 An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

 By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said
  Jean Rostand

 Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said
  Jean Rostand

 Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
  Samuel Johnson

 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 Emerson

 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 Emerson

 Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language
  Samuel Johnson

 For men are prone to go it blind along the calf-paths of the mind
To 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.

 He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen
  Samuel Johnson


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