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Prefer correct thinking to catchy phrases or demagogy. Here I have boiled down, toned down and reassembled many sayings and present such trimmed ideas along with straight quotations.

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The material is culled from a number of Internet sources besides quotation collections and proverb collections in book form.

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      Dh: Sherrin. Ned, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations. Paperback ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
      Dq: Cohen, J. M., and M. J. Cohen. The New Penguin Dictionary of Quotations. Rev. ed. London: Viking, 1992.
      Em: Atkinson, Brooks, ed. Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. New York: Modern Library, 1950.
      Oq: Ratcliffe, Susan, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of Thematic Quotations. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
      Ph: Ayer, A., and Jane O'Grady. A Dictionary of Philosophical Quotations. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.
      Qu: Cohen, J. M., and M. J. Cohen. The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960.
      Sju: Andreæ, D., m.fl. Citatboken. Stockholm: Natur och Kultur, 1986.
      Tq: Cohen, M. J., ed. The Penguin Thesaurus of Quotations. London: Penguin Books, 1999.
     
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