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Quotation Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of language.
- When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;…
- Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
- Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.
- Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author
- Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language
More Quotation Quotes
- Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. — Ambrose Bierce
- I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long… — E L Doctorow
- The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense… — Robert Benchley
- Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass… — Robertson Davies
- Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what… — Maturin Murray Ballou
- Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. — Oscar Wilde
- When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. — James A. Baldwin
- Life itself is a quotation. — Jorge Luis Borges