Quote by Roger Ascham
A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in u

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

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In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning. – Roger Ascham

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Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all. – Sébastien-Roch Nicolas

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A picture, it is said, is worth a thousand words, but cannot a few well-spoken words convey as many pictures? – Author Unknown

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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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The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen. – Lemony Snicket, The Vile Village, 2001

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The truest owner of a library is he who has bought each book for the love he bears to it; who is happy and content to say, “Here are my jewels, my choicest possessions!” – Frank Carr

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Its very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it. – Johnny Mathis

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To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher. – John Strachan

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I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must not write outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden. – Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924), In the Garden, published posthumously

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