With just enough of learning to misquote.
Category: Inspirational
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good.
We gladly feast on those who would subdue us … not just pretty words, Fester.
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.