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- In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), "The Crack-Up" (1936)
- Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
- Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939)
- A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
- Joseph Roux
- A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
- Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
- Sir Richard Steele
- A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night"
- An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
- Edwin P. Whipple
- Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
- Hansell B. Duckett
- There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
- Martin Gardner (1914 - ), "The Mathematical Magic Show"
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