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• Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. (Walter Benjamin) [quotations]
• It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations. (Winston Churchill) [thing/quotations]
• In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. (George Eliot) [ability/experience/quotations]
• I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [quotations]
• He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. (Rudyard Kipling) [quotations]
• Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything. (Andre Malraux) [quotations]
• After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. (H. L. Mencken) [quotations]
• A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything. (Thomas Love Peacock) [quotations]
• Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments. (Susan Sontag) [quotations/conscience/more]
• Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. (Orson Welles) [order/quotations]
• I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. (Max Beerbohm) [quotations/eyes/windows]
• It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations. (Maurice Chevalier) [women/men/quotations]

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