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Quotes from The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations — Carl Van Doren

1885–1950 United States

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The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1941)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Carl Van Doren (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.