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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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All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who can condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character, or illustrates an existence. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author. – André-Marie Ampère

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Quotations

Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust. – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010

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Quotations

It sometimes happens at the end of a dinner, when jokes and walnuts are cracked together, that the paternity of some trite quotation is put in question, and at once the wit of the whole company is set wool-gathering. – Frederic Swartwout Cozzens, “Phrases and Filberts,” Sayings, Wise and Otherwise

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“Tea” to the English is really a picnic indoors. – Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights. – Pearl Buck

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Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality. – Alfred Painter

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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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