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Phrases Quotes - Page 15

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1892). “Rousseau's Émile: Or, Treatise on Education”

He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.

James Joyce (1992). “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”, p.128, Wordsworth Editions

Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.

Isaac Asimov (2004). “Foundation and Empire”, p.122, Spectra

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

HG Wells, Rudy Rucker, Colin Wilson (2013). “The Last Books of H.G. Wells: The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life & Mind at the End of its Tether”, p.4, Monkfish Book Publishing