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 One good quote is worth a book
  Ashleigh Brilliant

 Pay attention and listen to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach, for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips

 Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

 Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
  Leo Rosten

 Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
  Leo Rosten

 Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author
  Samuel Johnson

 Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external

 Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. When it comes to life's most important lessons, we can all use gentle reminders.

 Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses

 She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
  William Somerset Maugham

 The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
  William Somerset Maugham

 The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceived who could see nothing more in a quotation than an extract
  Benjamin Disraeli

 The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
  John Milton

 The teachings of elegant sayings should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, any price will be paid.

 The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages, may be preserved through quotations
  Benjamin Disraeli


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