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«Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.»
Author: Hesketh Pearson
| Keywords:
accurately, misquotation, misquotations, Pride and, quotes, widely
«In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.»
Author: John Selden
(Antiquarian, Jurist, Politician)
| Keywords:
authors, quote, quotes, quoting, satisfaction
«The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.»
«Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired.»
«Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara - are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport»
Author: Saul Alinsky
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Castro, Che Guevara, computerize, computerized, germane, Guevara, jet, jets, Kennedy, quotes, runway, stagecoach, technological, the Airport
«There are Five kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, Politicians quoting statistics, and Novelists quoting Politicians on Statistics»
Author: Stephen K Tagg
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Lies
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damned, kinds, Novelists, Politicians, quotes, quoting, the novelist
«I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
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altogether, a great deal, context, destroyed, distorted, great deal, incongruous, In Context, juxtaposition, quoted, quotes, quoting, sentence, suffered, writers
«I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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Conversation
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adds, quote, quotes, quoting, spice, spiced
«Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.»
«I quote others only the better to express myself»
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