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"Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music." 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Men are idolaters and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it out of wood, you must make it out of words." Rate this Quote
"But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye." Rate this Quote
"To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man." Rate this Quote


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