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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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Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired. – Attributed to Richard Kemph

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What a good thing Adam had — when he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before. – Mark Twain, 1867

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