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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
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Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
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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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Results from Classic Quotes:

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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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)
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
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William Feather (1908 - 1976)
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I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express.
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Caldwell O'Keefe
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
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John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925), quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
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