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Post by Tamrin on Feb 20, 2010 7:49:59 GMT 10
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely
Hesketh Pearson (Born this day 1887)
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 28, 2010 15:30:05 GMT 10
I quote others only in order the better to express myself
Michel de Montaigne (Born this day 1533)
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 4, 2010 10:25:51 GMT 10
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well
Amos Bronson Alcott (Died this day 1888)
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 7, 2010 10:43:13 GMT 10
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims
Aristotle (Died this day 322 BCE)
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 10, 2010 7:57:43 GMT 10
Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated
Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel (Born this day 1772)
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 24, 2010 17:47:09 GMT 10
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another
Jules Verne (Died this day 1905)
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 28, 2010 10:52:06 GMT 10
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly
Virginia Woolf (Died this day 1941)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 5, 2010 10:04:39 GMT 10
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, and think they grow immortal as they quote
Edward Young (Died this day 1765)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 9, 2010 8:55:22 GMT 10
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotationsBro. Sir Winston Churchill(Proclaimed an honorary U.S. citizen this day 1963)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 10, 2010 11:26:38 GMT 10
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners
Evelyn Waugh (Died this day 1966)
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