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The present volume is the result of a taste for collecting poetica

The present volume is the result of a taste for collecting poetical quotations, which beset me in the days of my nonage, now more than half a century ago…. I read the poets diligently, and registered, in a portable form, whatever I thought apposite and striking. – Henry G. Bohn, A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets, 1881

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A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue. – Attributed to William F. DeVault

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Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire poems and all the Shakespearean soliloquies in their heads…. – Joseph Epstein, Foreword to Fred R. Shapiro’s Yale Book of Quotations, 200

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Epigrams succeed where epics fail. – Persian Proverb

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A picture, it is said, is worth a thousand words, but cannot a few well-spoken words convey as many pictures? – Author Unknown

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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other. – Oliver Goldsmith

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Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden, They Call Me Coach

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The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of Gods identity and love and ways. I hate that, but its the truth. – Anne Lamott

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