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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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Confound those who have said our remarks before us.

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With just enough of learning to misquote.

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

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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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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

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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.

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The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

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Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory.

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