The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
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Life itself is a quotation.
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As the Arab proverb says, The dog barks and the caravan passes. After having dropped this quotation, Mr. Norpois stopped to judge the effect it had on us. It was great; the proverb was known to us: it had been replaced that year among men of high worth by this other: Whoever sows the wind reaps the storm, which had needed some rest since it was not as indefatigable and hardy as, Working for the King of Prussia.
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A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
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Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
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Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
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Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.N.B. A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757 By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.
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As the Arab proverb says, 'The dog barks and the caravan passes'. After having dropped this quotation, Mr. Norpois stopped to judge the effect...
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Beware the writer who always encloses the word reality in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you
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A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
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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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Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes. N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757: By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.
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A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation
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In order to find a good quotation in a dictionary of humorous quotations, I didn't leave any stone unturned.
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Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
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N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see.
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When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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Quotation, n The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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I always have a quotation for everything-- it saves original thinking.
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The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
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'Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation' yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.
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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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