Quote by Charles Buxton
Proverbs are potted wisdom. - Charles Buxton

Proverbs are potted wisdom. – Charles Buxton

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Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul. – Charles Buxton

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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs. – Guy Debord

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You may get a large amount of truth into a brief space. – Attributed to Beecher in Edge-Tools of Speech by Maturin M. Ballou, 1899

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[S]ources are not too reliable. The words and thoughts are the thing. “The best words in the best order” is the object of all quotations. Who made the order and when is of interest, but not vital as the many quotations by “Anon.” testify. – Robert Irvine Fitzhenry (1918–2008), The Harper Book of Quotations

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It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else. – Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923

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