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To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones. – Nicolas Charles Joseph Trublet

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Quotology disdains no quotations whatsoever, a duty it bears stoutly, with bloodshot eyes and sagging shelves. – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010

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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. – James Baldwin

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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. – H.L. Mencken, about Shakespeare

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced—even a Proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it. – John Keats, letter to George and Georgiana Keats, February 24, 1819

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