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A beautiful verse, an apt remark, or a well-turned phrase, appropriately quoted, is always effective and charming. – Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond du Deffand

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The reader, however, is warned not to be too sure that the author of any quotation had in mind the subject to which it is applied here. – Katharine B. Wood, “Preface,” Quotations for Occasions, 1896 [Confessional discl

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A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice. – E.M. Cioran

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I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good. – Seneca, “On Tranquility of Mind,” translated by Moses Hadas

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I enjoy collecting quotations. When I find a choice one I pounce on it like a lepidopterist. My day is made. When I lose one because I did not copy it out at once I feel bereft. – R.I. Fitzhenry, preface to The David & Charles Book of Quotations, September 198

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We managed to hang in there. Today when people get married theres a tendency to run away when things get tough. There is a lot of strength in hanging together. – Jerry Stiller

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My family is my strength and my weakness. – Aishwarya Rai

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True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person. – Albert Camus

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The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people. – Robert Frost

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