I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Quotation.. A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill advised the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
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In order to find a good quotation in a dictionary of humorous quotations, I didn't leave any stone unturned.
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Purkey is the source of this quotation that is attributed to many others: it was made popular in the song Come From The Heart written by Susannah Clark and Richard Leigh. Purkey closed his speeches with this poem and it has now made it into the public d
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Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.N.B. A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757 By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.
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N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see.
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I always have a quotation for everything it saves original thinking.
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A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a witty person, but a pebble in the hands of a fool.
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A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation
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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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I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors
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Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author
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An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
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A good quotation gets out the mental screwdriver and adjusts the setscrew
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language
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The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceived who could see nothing more in a quotation than an extract
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To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.
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