"The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on quotations
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"The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him."

Benchley, Robert on quotations
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"I quote others in order to better express myself."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on quotations
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"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."

Maugham, W. Somerset on quotations
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"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on quotations
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"At a turbulent public meeting once I lost my temper and said some harsh and sarcastic things. The proposal I was supporting was promptly defeated. My father who was there, said nothing, but that night, on my pillow I found a marked passage from Aristotle: Anybody can become angry--that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way -- that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."

Gordon, Arthur on purpose   

"One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him."

Menninger, Karl A. on love
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"Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love."

Traherne, Thomas on conceit
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"Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom."

Krishnamurti, Jiddu on freedom
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"Women make love for love, men make love for lust."

Harge, Derrick on women
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"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore on love
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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