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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

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The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.

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

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An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

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The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

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

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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

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

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