{"id":145,"date":"2015-02-20T08:36:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T13:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=145"},"modified":"2015-02-20T09:02:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T14:02:22","slug":"quotes-on-the-use-of-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=145","title":{"rendered":"Quotes on the use of quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. &#8211; Proverb <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. &#8211; Benjamin Disraeli <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">I quote others only the better to express myself. &#8211; Michel de Montaigne <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">I hate quotations, tell me what you know. &#8211; Ralph Waldo Emerson <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language. &#8211; Johnson <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">A thing is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learned. &#8211; Seneca <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember. &#8211; Jason Mason Brown <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">A proverb is the child of experience. &#8211; Anon. <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">Proverbs are the sanctuary of the intuitions. &#8211; Ralph Waldo Emerson <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them. &#8211; Isaac D\u2019Israeli <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully, and quote aptly. &#8211; Lancelot Hogben <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. &#8211; Sir Winston Churchill <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">I often quote myself. 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