Quotes in Quotations

I didn't really say everything I said.

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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.


A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.


A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.


He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.


I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.


A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

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A witty saying proves nothing.

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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.


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.