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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

Doubts can only exist if there is a question; and to question there must be an answer.

Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them.

We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.

The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.

You could compile, I should think, the worst book in the world entirely out of selecting passages from the best writers in the world.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.

If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain.

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

He wrapped himself in quotations, as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.

I'll tell you something. I'd rather say something that people would quote as a great line that I thought of than win an Oscar.

Quotation, n.: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.

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