Pay attention and listen to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach, for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips

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Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Brendan Francis

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

— William Somerset Maugham

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— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra