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Quotations7 quotes
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism-victimless collecting, as it were... In a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments. — Susan Sontag · 1974Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. — Simeon Strunsky · 1944You see him laboring to produce bons mots. — Moliere · 1666I quote others only in order the better to express myself. — Michel de Montaigne · 1575I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1849It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations... The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. — Winston Churchill · 1930All 7 quotes →Thinking for oneself2 quotes
I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1849A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself. — A.A. Milne · 1920Self-expression1 quote
I quote others only in order the better to express myself. — Michel de Montaigne · 1575