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Books of quotations are an elemental model of how culture is perpetuted, the wisdom of the tribe passed on to posterity, to be added to, edited, and modified by subsequent genertios.
Robert Andrews
Shakespeare was a dramatist of note
Who lived by writing things to quote.
H. C. Bunner
Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.
E. M. Cioran
One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings.
Diogenes
By necessity, by proclivity and by delight, we all quote.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotation confesses inferiority.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Search not Authors to say what thou canst as well say thyself.
Thomas Fuller
Few things are more tempting to a writer than to repeat, admiringly, what he has said before.
John Kenneth Galbraith
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Joseph Roux
I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.
Seneca the Younger
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