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Results from Classic Quotes:

Enmeshed in the details of life, a diary rarely talks about the important things. It turns out that most of life happens off-screen.
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Laura Moncur (1969 - ), The Quotations Blog, 09-19-07

Results from Cole's Quotables:

I hate quotations.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
I improve on misquotation.
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Cary Grant (1904 - 1986)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Perhaps the reader may ask, of what consequence is it whether the author's exact language is preserved or not, provided we have his thought? The answer is, that inaccurate quotation is a sin against truth. It may appear in any particular instance to be a trifle, but perfection consists in small things, and perfection is no trifle.
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Robert W. Shaunon
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
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Robert M. Hamilton
Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.
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Louise Guiney
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
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Robert Chapman
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
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Lord Peter Wimsey, "Gaudy Night"
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