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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), My Early Life, 1930
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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Hesketh Pearson
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A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
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Robert M. Hamilton
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To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
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C. E. Montague, "A Writer's Notes on His Trade"
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Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
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Hesketh Pearson, Common Misquotations (1934), Introduction
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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
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Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
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He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
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Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), on Shakespeare
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The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
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Amanda Cross (1926 - )
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