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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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Miss Amesbury is especially happy in the use of quotations—and an apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence. – L.E. Landon, Romance and Reality, 1832

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Quotation brings to many people one of the intensest joys of living…. This innocent vanity often helps us over the hard places in life; it gives us a warm little glow against the coldness of the world and keeps us snug and happy. – Bernard Darwin, May 1941, introduction to The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

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It is important to say all the great thoughts again, without knowing that they have already been said. – Elias Canetti

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