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"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit…"
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Quotations"Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author. Perhaps the next highest is, when a writer of any kind is so considerable that you go to the labor and pains of endeavoring to refute him before the public, the very doing of which is an incidental admission of his talent and power."
"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit…"
"All which he understood by rote, And, as occasion servd, would quote."
"It is a sure sign of troubled minds, the habit of quotation."
"At all events, the next best thing to being witty ones self, is to be able to quote anothers wit."
"At all times pseudoprofound aphorisms have been more popular than rigorous arguments."
"People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations."