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- Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff…
- A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find…
- To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the…
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- When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. — James A. Baldwin
- I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. — Max Beerbohm
- The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. — Robert Benchley
- Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. — Ambrose Bierce
- Life itself is a quotation. — Jorge Luis Borges
- One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. — Amos Bronson Alcott
- I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this… — Robert Burns
- It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. — Winston Churchill
- Good teachers deserve apples; great teachers deserve chocolate. A favorite quotation, written in calligraphy on his office door. — Richard Hamming
- How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with… — Dorothy Parker
- I looked up and saw my flag. But I didn't hear my anthem. The quotation above from 6 ft 4 inch, 286… — Unknown Author
- A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business. — A A Milne