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Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the co

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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A proverb is an exploding atom of wisdom. – Gaston Kaboré

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Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote anothers wit. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Quotation and Originality,” Letters and Social Aims, 1876

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