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Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning. – Samuel Johnson, 1760

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To me, novels are just quotations with a bunch of filler. – Terri Guillemets

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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. – H.L. Mencken, about Shakespeare

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