Quotes of Encyclopedium - somelinesforyou

“ I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am. ”

- Oriana Fallaci

“ Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors. ”

- Lord Acton

“ To me, the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't. ”

- Francis Yeats Brown

“ Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. ”

- Saul Bellow

“ An encyclopedia is a system for collecting dust in alphabetical order. ”

- Mike Barfield
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