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When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
A book of quotations - can never be complete.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Life itself is a quotation.