Vicesimus Knox quotes
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“It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book.”
-- Vicesimus KnoxSource : Vicesimus Knox (1805). “Winter Evenings: Or Lucubrations on Life and Letters. ...”, p.47
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“Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?”
-- Vicesimus KnoxSource : In Mary Wollstonecraft 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman' (1792) ch. 7
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Source : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.707, Simon and Schuster
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“You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.”
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“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”
Source : Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.174, 谷月社
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“That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.”
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