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Letter "Q" » Quotations
«In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.»
Author: Andre Maurois
(Biographer, Essayist, Novelist)
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Literature,
Love,
Quotations
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astonished
«It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.»
«For men are prone to go it blind along the calf-paths of the mindTo do what other men have done. They follow in the beaten track, and out and in, and forth and back, and still their devious course pursue, to keep the path that others do.»
Author: Sam Walter Foss
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Quotations
«I always have a quotation for everything -- it saves original thinking.»
«He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors»
Author: Rudyard Kipling
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Quotations
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beggar, emperors, enfold, enfolded, enfolding, purple, quotations, wrapped
«In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall»
Author: Bob Dylan
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Books,
Quotations
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bus, conclusions, dime, quotations, situations, stations, stores, talk of, The Wall
«I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Quotations
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amiss, applied, aptly, be amiss, discharged, discharges, discharging, hit-or-miss, insipid, proverb, reasonably, renders, Right or Wrong, vulgar
«I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.»
«Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Quotations
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contributes, enlargement, enlargements, quotation
«It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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Quotations
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anxious, authors, engrave, engraved, engraves, engraving, quotations, uneducated
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