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Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. Journals, 1843
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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others
as it is to invent.
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Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them
together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won't go away hungry, but it's not
quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this
turbulent existence.
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The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.
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A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
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All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two
strands.
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When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a
very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet. . . indeed, I
would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the
quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
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I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
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