Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
Life itself is a quotation.
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
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