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Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiment

Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification. – Maturin M. Ballou, January 1886, preface to Edge-Tools of Speech

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Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author. – André-Marie Ampère

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Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said. – Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, translated from Latin

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It’s such a pleasure to write down splendid words—almost as though one were inventing them. – Rupert Hart-Davis

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I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, Verify your quotations. – Sir Winston Churchill

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