Quote by Augustine Birrell
One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexande

One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote–Alexander Pope. – Augustine Birrell

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An ordinary man can… surround himself with two thousand books… and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. – Augustine Birrell

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At all events, the next best thing to being witty one’s self, is to be able to quote another’s wit. – Christian Nestell Bovee, “Quoters and Quoting,” Institutions and Summaries of Th

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Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author. – André-Marie Ampère

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Always verify quotations! – Martin Joseph Routh, quoted in Catholic World: A Monthly Magazine of General Lit

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There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde’s plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics. – Brander Matthews, “American Aphorisms,” Harper’s Magazine, November 1915,

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