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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he read more
Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the read more
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the world.
Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying read more
Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying them.
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He read more
He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often read more
We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
