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- Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
- Philip G. Hamerton, "The Intellectual Life"
- To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
- C. E. Montague, "A Writer's Notes on His Trade"
- Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), "Walden", 1854
- To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
- Robertson Davies, "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks"
- He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
- Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business"
- A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
- Robertson Davies, "What's Bred in the Bone"
- The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
- Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
- There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ), Parliament of Whores (1991)
- In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.
- Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind
- We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
- Bill Vaughan
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