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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language

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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

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Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author

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He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen

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The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning

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Most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things

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Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss

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To a poet nothing can be useless

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No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures

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It is no less a proof of eminence to have many enemies than many friends

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