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A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcome

A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion. – Robert Chapman

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Attend to me, Sancho, I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and seasonably applied; but to be for ever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote de la Mancha, translated from Spanish

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The truest sayings are paradoxical. – Laozi, as quoted in The Wisdom of the East: The Sayings of Lao Tzŭ, transla

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Reader, Now I send thee like a Bee to gather honey out of flowers and weeds; every garden is furnished with either, and so is ours. Read and meditate; thy profit shall be little in any book, unless thou read alone, and unless thou read all and record after. – Henry Smith

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You might not be able to answer a question with a question but you can always answer a question with a quote! – Hunter Brinkmeier

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