The Overnight Quote

This is a new idea I had.  I want people to be able to wake up and have something new to read... but I can't always write something spectacular right before bed.  So I plan on doing a quote - hopefully relevant to SOMETHING-- that you can read if you log in really early, before you start your day.

QUOTATION....A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a chord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read.  Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium. --Henry Watson Fowler and Francis George Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage [1926]

LOL.  Yup, to me, that is funny.  Because it's pretty darn pretentious, isn't it?  Really, though, feel free to chime in with your thoughts on the quote... you can comment below by clicking on "Comments."  Thanks!