Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? (Philip Gilbert Hamerton)

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

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