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But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. N

But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse. – Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy, 1948

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When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: take it and copy it. – Anatole France, “The Creed”

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