quotation quotes

Everyquotation contributessomething tothestabilityor enlargement of the language.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
  A Dictionary of the English Language, preface.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be classics, now it's lyric verse.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  The Loved One, ch.9.

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