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Flattery.... gets its kicks by flirting with insult and ridicule.
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Quotation lovers love rare words.
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Great quotation collections glean the millennia, distill essences, and battle for bragging rights about who’s bigger, who’s smarter, who’s best. Who-knows-who-said-what has a market, a history, and a hall of fame.
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Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we must wade into.
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Quotations calcify into clichés.
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Flattery works like a drug.
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Quotology disdains no quotations whatsoever, a duty it bears stoutly, with bloodshot eyes and sagging shelves.
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Care for yourself enough to listen carefully to what you say to yourself.
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Say what you want without saying it yourself: quote. Very useful, this, sometimes lovely, and versatile, too: big thoughts in small pieces, neatly wrapped and bundled in bulk, in different flavors for different tastes.
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If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too.
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A little flattery, like a warm bath and soft towel, will let you get along with yourself, lie down with yourself, and sleep.
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At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression.
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[D]ifferent people have different quotational gravity.
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Quotations cause all kinds of trouble.
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Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.
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Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust.
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In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.
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Flatter yourself critically.
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Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors quotographers, the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost.
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