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Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that

Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that bears saying twice is quotable. – Joseph Epstein, “Quotatious,” A Line Out for a Walk: Familiar Essays, 1991

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Proverbs are potted wisdom. – Charles Buxton

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