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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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I can tell thee where that saying was born… – William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night [I, 5, Maria]

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