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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

Repetition for no reason is a sign of carelessness or pretentiousness, but there are plenty of good reasons to repeat words and phrases.

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!

When you repeat yourself so many times, even if you're speaking the truth, the repetition starts to feel false. Sometimes, you just feel like the words you're speaking, even if they once had meaning, have lost it. And that makes you feel kind of silly.

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.

I improve on misquotation.

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.