Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought.
Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.
- — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1883), "Character"
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| Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
- — George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Vol. 5 (1906), Ch. 8
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| The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.
- — Isaac D'Israeli, Curiosities of Literature (1791–1824), "Quotation"
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| If it ain't cited, it ain't a quote.
- — Ningauble (You can quote me on that.)
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| How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
- — Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), Ch. 3: "Reading"
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| Literature is news that stays news.
- — Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading (1934), Ch. 8
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