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A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. - Yiddi

A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. – Yiddish Proverb

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Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys. – Yiddish Proverb

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The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit. – Edwin P. Whipple, lecture delivered before the Boston Mercantile Library Associa

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How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere. – Edward Lytton Bulwer

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Only the use of footnotes enables historians to make their texts not monologues but conversations, in which modern scholars, their predecessors, and their subjects all take part. – Anthony Grafton (b.1950), The Footnote: A Curious History, “Epilogue: Some Concl

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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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