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The proper proportions of a maxim: a minimum of sound to a maximum

The proper proportions of a maxim: a minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. – Mark Twain

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Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. – Mark Twain

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you dont mind, it doesnt matter. – Mark Twain

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Cunning authors cut to be quoted. – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010

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I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good. – Seneca, “On Tranquility of Mind,” translated by Moses Hadas

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But further, in order to embellish it with flowers of language and gems of thought, it is not necessary for this ornamentation to be spread evenly over the entire speech, but it must be so distributed that there may be brilliant jewels placed at various points as a sort of decoration. – Cicero, De oratore

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In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving… – William Francis Henry King, “Introduction,” Classical and Foreign Quotations, 18

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