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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
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James Baldwin

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Life itself is a quotation.
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Jorge Luis Borges

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That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
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Amanda Cross

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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
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Guy Debord

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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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Isaac Disraeli

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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
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George Eliot

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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
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W. I. E. Gates

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I improve on misquotation.
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Cary Grant

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Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.
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Ihab Hassan

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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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Samuel Johnson

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

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He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
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Rudyard Kipling

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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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Andre Malraux

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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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H. L. Mencken

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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.
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Thomas Love Peacock

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A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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Joseph Roux

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A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
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The Talmud

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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
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Orson Welles

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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
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Lord Peter Wimsey

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