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{{quote|''"I wish I'd said that."''|[[Oscar Wilde]], to a witty remark by James McNeill Whistler}}
[[There Is No Such Thing as Notability]], but There Is Such A Thing As Quotability.
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[http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=297952 Studies have been done] on the ultimate master list of quotable authors but there are still more out there but there are still those who can gain infamy for a delightful epigram. They face a problem of saturation though for it seems that every poetic piece of wit gets attributed back to the same stock '''Authors of Quote''' when people are unsure of who really to acknowledge.
{{examples}}
== [[Older Than Feudalism]] ==
* ''[[The Bible]]'', especially [[Jesus]].
* [[Aristotle]]
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* [[Voltaire (philosopher)|Voltaire]] whose writings inspired countless writers and were used in [[The French Revolution|two]] [[The American Revolution|revolutions]]. Look him up, he is a source of endless fun quotables.
* [[Benjamin Franklin]]
* [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]: "Forest Primeval", "Shot Heard Round the World", etc.
== [[Older Than Radio]] ==
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We just assume that Oscar said it. }}
** Poem by [[Dorothy Parker]], [[The Snark Knight]], herself an example.
** Acknowledged, in their own special way, by Uncyclopedia with the [
* [[Friedrich Nietzsche]]. His quotes have even become a [[Kanye West]] song.
* [[Abraham Lincoln]]
* [[Ralph Waldo Emerson|Ralph Waldo]] [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson Emerson]
* [[Lewis Carroll]]. ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' is the third
* [[Karl Marx]]
* [[Mark Twain]]
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