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"A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." »J. D. Salinger
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"The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." »William Stekel
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"Life itself is a quotation." »Jorge Luis Borges
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"quotation, n The act of repeating erroneously the words of another." »Ambrose Bierce
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"I always have a quotation for everything, it saves original thinking." »Dorothy L. Sayers
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"I always have a quotation for everything-- it saves original thinking." »Dorothy L. Sayers
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""Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation." »W.V.O. Quine
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"Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language." »Samuel Johnson
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"Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world." »Samuel Johnson
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"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see." »Shaquille ONeal
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"A good quotation is a very strong wind; it can change a man's direction!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought." »Dorothy L. Sayers
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"The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool." »Joseph Roux
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"A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion." »Robert Chapman
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"Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority." »Brendan Francis
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"The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"We aim above the mark to hit the mark." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"In order to find a good quotation in a dictionary of humorous quotations, I didn't leave any stone unturned." »B. J. Gupta
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"Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future." »Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul
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"Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality." »Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
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"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others." »Greville
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