Quotation
"But, to my great disappointment, I soon found that people were not to be reasoned out of measures, that they never reasoned themselves into." Worcester Magazine, v. 3, p. 46. 1787.
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“Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.”
—Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)