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Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard. – Robertson Davies

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Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars. – Robertson Davies

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Pornography
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A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. – Robertson Davies

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Age
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But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words. – Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, November 19, 1751

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One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote–Alexander Pope. – Augustine Birrell

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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. – Persian Proverb

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

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Whenever we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords whose tones we are about to harmonize. – Isaac D’Israeli, “Quotation,” A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature

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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There are three major social issues that this country is struggling with: education, poverty, and drugs. Two of them we talk about, and one of them we dont. – Steven Soderbergh

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A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned. – Arabic Proverb

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