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To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius, a vital appropriating exercise of mind, closely allied to that which first created it. – William Rounseville Alger, “The Utility and the Futility of Aphorisms,” The Atla

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That is the point of quotations. One can use anothers words to be insulting. – Amanda Cross

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The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. – Ambrose Bierce

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