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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily read more
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.
Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, read more
Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.
Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come.
Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the read more
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.