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Letter "Q" » Quotations
«Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses»
«Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.»
Author: Leo Rosten
(Novelist)
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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»
«I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself.»
Author: Marlene Dietrich
(Actress)
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beautifully, expressed, find oneself, quotations, recognizably, wiser
«I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul»
«I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.»
Author: Robert Burns
(Poet)
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Amid, armour, defensive, favourite, offensive, on the offensive, quotations, store, turbulent
«Pay attention and listen to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach, for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips»
«Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.»
Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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drawn, Proverbs, sentences
«Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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originator, originators, The Originator
«Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.»
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