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Quote by James Boswell

“There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.”

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James Boswell, born on October 29, 1740, and died on May 19, 1795, was a Scottish lawyer and writer. He is best known for his biography, 'The Life of Samuel Johnson,' which provides a detailed account of the life and thoughts of the 18th-century British writer Samuel Johnson. more

“I here present thee with a hive of bees, laden some with wax, and some with honey. Fear not to approach! there are no wasps, there are no hornets here. If some wanton bee chance to buzz about thine ears, stand thy ground and hold thy hands-there's none will sting thee, if thou strike not first. If any do, she hath honey in her bag will cure thee too.”

Ifs Firsts Hands Chance Approach Ears Strikes Cures Thee Bags Honey Bees Fear Not Buzz Wanton Hives Wasps Hornets

Author:Francis Quarles

“It is a rich storehouse for those who love quotations. It is as full of fine bon mots as a Christmas pudding is full of plums.”

Rich Fine Quotations Pudding Plums

Author:Fitz-Greene Halleck

“...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind.”

Mind Taste Tongue

Author:William Francis Henry King

“They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.”

May Age Written Rocks Periods Prose Verses Shells Volume Deluge Couplets

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Goodness, that Simon Cowell is a sensitive soul.”

Soul Goodness Sensitive

Author:Bruce Forsyth

“For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase.”

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Book:CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet

Source: CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet

“This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares.”

Please Fellows Wit Pigeons Peas

Book:The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes

Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes

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