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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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I swim across a sea of quotes, splashing in the words and riding the waves of wisdom. – Terri Guillemets

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But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse. – Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy, 1948

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Ah, yes, I wrote the Purple Cow — Im sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you, anyhow, Ill kill you if you quote it. – Gelett Burgess

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Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. Noble actions are the substance of life; good sayings its ornament and guide. – Charles Simmons, “Aphorisms Introductory,” Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker, 18

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My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading. – Thomas Hardy

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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. – John Updike

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