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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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சுராவின் அகர வரிசையில் ஆங்கில தமிழ் பழமொழிகள்

D. V. ரங்கராஜன் - 2003 - 554 pages
...Rostand 41. Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. - Denis Dederot 42. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. - RW Emerson 43. All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, single...
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Sura's Quotable Quotes, Adages and Sayings

D.V. Rangarajan - 2004 - 172 pages
...peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said" - Jean Rostand. "Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it" - Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory" - Denis...
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In Praise of Books

2005 - 145 pages
...his excellent knowledge and quotations perhaps as much, possibly more, than Ms original suggestions. Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first...done this, that line will be quoted east and west. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies : " Yet he was more original...
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Emerson, Romanticism, and Intuitive Reason: The Transatlantic "light of All ...

Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 555 pages
...important to us whose they are. If we are fired and guided by these, we know him as a benefactor. . . . We respect ourselves the more that we know them. Next...originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. ... Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: "Yet...
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Business Wit & Wisdom

Richard Zera - 2005 - 316 pages
...as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. —Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to...
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The Transportation Experience: Policy, Planning, and Deployment

William L. Garrison, David M. Levinson - 2005 - 472 pages
...about policy to be proactive on consequential transportation development matters? Railroads Rising Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of i — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Quotation and Originality Introduction The first railroad serving both passengers...
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The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When

Ralph Keyes - 2007 - 416 pages
...constant quoter. "By necessity, by proclivity — and by delight, we all quote," he observed. And: "Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. In the process of quotation Emerson himself didn't always get it right. In his essay "Experience,"...
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The Resurrection of the Body: The Work of Norman O. Brown

David Greenham - 2006 - 220 pages
...out of context, and may not even mean (even desire to mean) what the "original" author meant; thus, "next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it" and "Genius borrows nobly" (CW 785). Emerson's own source is Goethe, In this case, all thought and...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 128

1876 - 862 pages
...dangerous forms of paraphrase. Emerson says that '• there are great ways of borrowing," and that " next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it ; " but he cannot have meant to give any sanction for a gypsy-like disfiguration in the process of...
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Teachers Magazine, Volume 35

1912 - 482 pages
...paper very much (also School Journal) and they have been a great help to me." X. Topical Quotations Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.— EMERSON. Next to doing things that deserve to be written, there is nothing that gets a man more credit...
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