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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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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961), in Edward R. Murrow television interview
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Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Song of Myself"
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
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Ring Lardner (1885 - 1933), "How to Write Short Stories"
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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To be great is to be misunderstood.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), An Essay on Self-Reliance
Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.
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Lillian Carter, in her 80s
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
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Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
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Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
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