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" Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west. "
The North American Review - Page 554
edited by - 1868
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Familiar quotations [compiled] by J. Bartlett. Author's ed

Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...Channiny. Nothing is more simple than greatness ; indeed, to be simple is to be great. Literary Ethics, Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it-1 Quotation and Originality. It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself,...
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The book-lover's enchiridion, thoughts, selected and arranged by Philobiblos

Book-lover - 1883 - 262 pages
...of a good sentenee is the first queter of it. Many will read the hook before one thinks of queting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be queted east and wost. Then there are great ways of borrewing. Genins borrews nobly. When Shakspeare...
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The book-lover's enchiridion, thoughts, selected and arranged by Philobiblos ...

Book-lover - 1884 - 530 pages
...author more strictly, and might better judge of his own wants to supply them." . . . Original power is usually accompanied with assimilating power, and...great ways of borrowing. Genius borrows nobly. When Shakspeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies : " Yet he was more original than his...
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The Book-lover's Enchiridion

1884 - 532 pages
...author more strictly, and might better judge of his own •wants to supply them." . . . Original power is usually accompanied with assimilating power, and...great ways of borrowing. Genius borrows nobly. When Shakspeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies : " Yet he was more original than his...
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Letters and Social Aims

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...was always dear to the writer himself ; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy ami equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our...great ways of borrowing. Genius borrows nobly. When Shakspeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies : " Yet he was more original than his...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 488 pages
...quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. " Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it." — — " The Progress of Culture," his second Phi Beta Kappa oration, has already been mentioned....
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Henry Bowen Anthony: A Memorial

1885 - 218 pages
...authors, Lander replies: "Yet he was more original than his originals." It is Emerson, I think, who says: "Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it." But, sir, our Senator was always equal to the need. He had a masterful good sense, which mastered the...
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Henry Bowen Anthony: A Memorial

Rhode Island. General Assembly - 1885 - 220 pages
...authors, Lander replies: "Yet he was more original than his originals." It is Emerson, I think, who says: "Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it." But, sir, our Senator was always equal to the need. He had a masterful good sense, which mastered the...
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Voice Culture and Elocution

William T. Ross - 1887 - 362 pages
...High and Very High pitch interchangeable ; also those under Low and Very Low. MIDDLE PITCH : — 1. Next to the originator of a good sentence, is the first quoter of it. 2. A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew ; And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its...
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Excellent Quotations for Home and School ...

Julia B. Hoitt - 1890 - 426 pages
...All rights reserved. Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. — ABD EL-KADER Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. — EMEKSON Books are the beehives of thought ; laconics, the honey taken from them. — **** Proverbs...
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