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«A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.»
Author: Brendan Francis
| About:
Books,
Quotations
| Keywords:
article, infantryman, infantrymen, quotation, rifle, with authority
«Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said»
Author: Jean Rostand
(Biologist, Historian)
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Quotations
| Keywords:
One The, peerless, sentences
«A good quotation gets out the mental screwdriver and adjusts the setscrew»
Author: Joan Larsen
| About:
Quotations
| Keywords:
adjusts, quotation, screwdriver, screwdrivers, setscrew, The Mental
«A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.»
«An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.»
«A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion»
Author: Robert Chapman
| About:
Happiness,
Quotations
| Keywords:
felicity, intrusion, intrusions, justifying, pun, quotation, unsought, welcomed
«Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Quotations
| Keywords:
ancestors, forests, mines, quarries, quarry, quotation, The Quarry
«By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Quotations
| Keywords:
proclivity, quote
«Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Life,
Literature,
Quotations
| Keywords:
borrower, Borrowers, mimic, mimics, quotation, theatrical, theatricals
«Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Quotations
| Keywords:
classical, literary, parole, quotation
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