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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.»
«A good quotation gets out the mental screwdriver and adjusts the setscrew»
«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»
«A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished»
«My favorite quotation from Shantideva's book is: 'As long as space endures, as long as sentient beings remain, until then, may I too remain and dispel the miseries of the world.'»
«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»
«Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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borrower,
Borrowers,
mimic,
mimics,
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theatrical,
theatricals
«Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.»