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If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works o

If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain. – Edmund Burke

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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. – Edmund Burke

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People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. – Edmund Burke

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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. – Edmund Burke

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Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present. – Tryon Edwards

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Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that bears saying twice is quotable. – Joseph Epstein, “Quotatious,” A Line Out for a Walk: Familiar Essays, 1991

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Often we were rescued by that ever-present help in time of trouble, the beloved benefactor known only as “Anonymous.” – Frank Spencer Mead (1898–1982), preface to 12,000 Religious Quotations, 19

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A proper collection of quotations is the whole world digested. – Terri Guillemets

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