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The difference between my quotations and those of the next man is

The difference between my quotations and those of the next man is that I leave out the inverted commas. – George Moore, quoted in Peter’s Quotations: Ideas for Our Times by Laurenc

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There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences. – Miguel de Cervantes

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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartletts Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. – Sir Winston Churchill

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What a good thing Adam had — when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. – Mark Twain, 1867

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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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