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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.
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Elaine Gill
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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.
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Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
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In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876
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Life itself is a quotation.
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Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1986)
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Results from Classic Quotes:

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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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Roving Commission: My Early Life, 1930, Chapter 9
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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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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Journal (May 1849)
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I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), quoted in Rudolf Flesch, ed., "The New Book of Unusual Quotations" (NY: Harper & Row, 1966), p. 311
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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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Henry W. Fowler (1858 - 1933), A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims (Quotation and Originality)
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