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A typical, and perhaps ideal, quotation is usually short, concise and commonly only one sentence long. There are two broad categories which most quotations fall into, beauty and truth, although some quotations fit equally well into both these groups.
Beautifull quotations are words remembered for their aesthetically pleasing use of language, whereas many other quotations are remembered because they are thought to express some universal truth. These latter quotations are often called maxims or aphorisms and they are highly regarded for being pithy renderings of ideas that most people have but most have not been able to express so clearly.
A third type of quotation may be any line which merely reminds the person who quotes it of a particularly memorable work, sometimes making a subtle comparison to the situation or topic at hand.
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"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; "
Ode To Autumn, John Keats |
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"Authority is never without hate."
Ion, Euripides |
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"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."
Inferno III, 9, Dante Alighieri
(Inscribed above the gates of Hell.) |
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"The man who lives for himself is a failure; the man who lives for others has achieved true success."
Norman Vincent Peale |
Source: Wikipedia
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