I went and ran the numbers on my quotations database, WIST, yesterday, the first time since February 2007. I’m currently at 6600 quotations, vs. the 5100 I was at back then. Huzzah. WIST is one of my “success stories” so far as pastimes go, something I actually get to and keep updated on a regular basis.
The top ten authors (by quote count) are from, almost exclusively, dead white guys (there’s one live one): Shakespeare, Twain, Bertrand Russell, CS Lewis, Shaw, Chesterton, Emerson, Bill Watterson, Bierce, and Franklin. Still, not a bad group to rhetorically pal around with.
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