Good sayings are like pearls strung together. – Chinese Proverb
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. – Chinese Proverb
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Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. – Chinese Proverb
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. – Chinese Proverb
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It has been said that death ends all things. This is a mistake. It does not end the volume of practical quotations, and it will not until the sequence of the alphabet is so materially changed as to place D where Z now stands. – Harper’s Bazar: Facetiæ, September 1, 1888, quoted in A Dictionary of
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Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that the thrill of making an anthology includes the opportunity to become such a coauthor. – Gary Saul Morson, The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture, 2011
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