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A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake, into short room. – Roger Ascham

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There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. – Roger Ascham

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Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning. – Roger Ascham

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Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books… – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Quotation and Originality,” Letters and Social Aims, 1876

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Quotology disdains no quotations whatsoever, a duty it bears stoutly, with bloodshot eyes and sagging shelves. – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010

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Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybodys reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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[W]hen I hear or read a good line I can hardly wait to tell it to somebody else… – Robert Byrne, The Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said,

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all. – Timothy Radcliffe

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