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1	->''"Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me."''
2	-->-- '''Michel de Montaigne'''
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4	->''"Quotation is an acceptable substitute for wit."''
5	-->-- '''Creator/OscarWilde'''
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7	->''"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."''
8	-->-- '''Karl Marx''''s last words.
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10	->''"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,\
11	and think they grow immortal as they quote."''
12	-->-- '''Edward Young'''
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14	->''"Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly."''
15	-->-- '''Simeon Strunsky''', ''No Mean City'' (1944)
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17	->''"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely."''
18	-->-- '''Hesketh Pearson''', ''Common Misquotations'', Introduction
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20	->''"Ah, yes! I wrote 'The Purple Cow'--\
21	I'm sorry now I wrote it!\
22	But I can tell you anyhow,\
23	I'll kill you if you quote it!"''
24	-->-- '''Gelett Burgess'''
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26	->''"I hate quotation. Tell me what you know."''
27	-->-- '''Creator/RalphWaldoEmerson'''
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29	->'''Ben Franklin:''' Treason is a word invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers.\
30	'''John Adams:''' I have better things to do than stand here listening to you quote yourself.\
31	'''Ben Franklin:''' No, that was a new one!
32	-->-- ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix''
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34	->''"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."''
35	-->-- '''Creator/DorothyLSayers''', ''[[Literature/LordPeterWimsey Gaudy Night]]''

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