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Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this q

Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, May 1849

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One man’s wit, and all men’s wisdom. – John Russell, definition of a proverb

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Life itself is a quotation. – Jorge Luis Borges

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Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late. – James Alexander Thom

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Reader, Now I send thee like a Bee to gather honey out of flowers and weeds; every garden is furnished with either, and so is ours. Read and meditate; thy profit shall be little in any book, unless thou read alone, and unless thou read all and record after. – Henry Smith

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