 | "Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it."
- Alfred North Whitehead
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| "I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether."
- Alfred North Whitehead
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| "The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting."
- Amanda Cross
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| "Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
- Ambrose Bierce
, The Devil's Dictionary. |
| "When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it."
- Anatole France
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| "Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything."
- Andre Malraux
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| Write a wise saying and your name will live forever
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Anonymous. |
| "It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."
- Aristotle
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| "The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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| "A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority."
- Brendan Francis
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