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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.174, 谷月社

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• The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Care, Return, Originals

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt,p. 653-54, Curiosities of Literature, 1922.

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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.

  Robert Burns

  Struggle, Mind, Offensive

  Robert Burns, James Currie (1844). “The Works of Robert Burns: With Dr. Currie's Memoir of the Poet, and an Essay on His Genius and Character”, p.276

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• The investor with a portfolio of sound stocks should expect their prices to fluctuate and should neither be concerned by sizable declines nor become excited by sizable advances. He should always remember that market quotations are there for his convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.

  Benjamin Graham

  Taken, Sound, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Inspirational, Leadership, Book

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• When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.

  Jack Smith

  Phrases, Coins, Wit

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• Spouting quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara, which are as germane to our highly technological, computerized, cybernetic, nuclearpowered, mass media society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.

  Saul Alinsky

  Airports, Political, Politics

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• An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Light, Lamps, Fling

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.70

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• It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Deceit, Chance

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.74, eKitap Projesi

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• Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.

  Robertson Davies

  Book, Ignorance, Stuff

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• Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

  Paul Eldridge

  Quotation Marks, Bigs, Theft

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• A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.

  Jonathan Swift

  Running, Book, Greek

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• It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Book, Teaching

  My Early Life ch. 9 (1930)

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• The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Thinking, Monkeys

  My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew "Quick Quotations" (1936)

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

  James A. Baldwin

  Literature, Habit, Live By

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• Life itself is a quotation.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  "Cool Memories". Book by Jean Baudrillard, Ch. 5, 1987.

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• I surround myself with inspirational quotations.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Surround

  Blake Mycoskie (2012). “Start Something That Matters”, p.58, Random House

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• Always verify quotations!

  Martin Routh

  Verify

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• Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal.

  Peg Bracken

  Eye, Iron, Pudding

  Peg Bracken (1969). “I Didn't Come Here to Argue”

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• Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

  Janet Malcolm

  Way, Fidelity, Characteristics

  Janet Malcolm (2011). “The Journalist And The Murderer”, p.146, Granta Books

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• A book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, — it is a plaything.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Book

  "Crotchet Castle".

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• Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

  Susan Sontag

  Ironic, Collecting

  On Photography "Melancholy Objects" (1977)

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• Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

  Walter Benjamin

  Conviction, Leap, Strollers

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.481, Harvard University Press

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• It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

  Tom Stoppard

  Witty, Truth, Honesty

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.49, University of Michigan Press

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• The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Art, Practice, Delicacy

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 653-54, Curiosities of Literature, 1922.

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