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Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quo

Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations. – Gary Saul Morson, The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture, 2011

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I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may be one of three things either what is called Plagiarism, or Imitation, or Coincidence. – James Boswell, “The Hypochondriack,” No.XXII, 1779

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Oh, to say something so fine, so memorable, that it carries across time, oceans, and languages! – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010

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A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. – Joseph Roux (1834–1905), Meditations of a Parish Priest, 1886, translated

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He repeated to himself an old French proverb that he had made up that morning. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them. – Galileo Galilei

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I dont even know what sound is, much less what its for. It isnt to make money thats for sure. Ive never made any. – Don Van Vliet

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