Most anthologists of quotations are like those who eat cherries or

Most anthologists of quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters; first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything. – Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort

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Of course, talking only in proverbs would be impossible. Proverbs are full of poetry and twists. They are made up of words that have been molded for centuries, if not milleniums, until a minimum of words carry an extraordinary potential for meaning. – Gaston Kaboré

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A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice. – E.M. Cioran

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For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase… – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats—and one always secretes too much jelly. – Virginia Woolf

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