{"id":129922,"date":"2016-02-29T09:53:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/29\/one-of-my-favorite-quotations.html"},"modified":"2016-02-29T09:53:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:53:50","slug":"one-of-my-favorite-quotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/29\/one-of-my-favorite-quotations.html","title":{"rendered":"One of my favorite quotations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I tell people I collect quotation, the immediate question is, &quot;What&#39;s your favorite?&quot; And I always stand there and stammer and drool a bit while my mind tries to sift through the thousand I&#39;ve curated.<\/p>\n<p>I need to keep this one in my back pocket, since it really is (a) one of my favors, and (b) one I use on a relatively frequent basis.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Quotations &#8211; WIST &#8211; Wish I&#8217;d Said That<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It is not best that we should all think alike; it is differences of opinion that make horse races.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <b>Mark Twain<\/b> (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]<br \/><i>The Tragedy of Pudd&rsquo;nhead Wilson,<\/i> ch. 19, epigraph (1894)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/wist.info\/twain-mark\/3914\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/JsuEZUjBAV0yMekodA2HQFxzgt_tmOOmBu4R1B_o6gOlA2d0bgQgQAK-IuoKFqsQb7cRImdVZh1hWu59zlQhjeyXI3VebL30AIrJkEqFhpI6zujDWEu2uQ_CEaxIwm0VoRpdtg=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/wist.info\/twain-mark\/3914\/'>Twain, Mark &#8211; The Tragedy of Pudd&#8217;nhead Wilson, ch. 19, epigraph (1894) | WIST<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIt is not best that we should all think alike; it is differences of opinion that make horse races.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/2aZLx6pR2Xi'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I tell people I collect quotation, the immediate question is, &quot;What&#39;s your favorite?&quot; And I always stand there and stammer and drool a bit while my mind tries to sift through the thousand I&#39;ve curated. I need to keep this one in my back pocket, since it really is (a) one of my favors, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/29\/one-of-my-favorite-quotations.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One of my favorite quotations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129464,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/12\/but-quotation-research-is-hard.html","url_meta":{"origin":129922,"position":0},"title":"But quotation research is HARD!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-Jan-16 11:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"I like GoodReads for a number of things -- a place to record what you've read (or are going to read), a place to review and read reviews, it does well at that.But a reliable place to get quotations? 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