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It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can

It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. – Franklin P. Jones

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The reader, however, is warned not to be too sure that the author of any quotation had in mind the subject to which it is applied here. – Katharine B. Wood, “Preface,” Quotations for Occasions, 1896 [Confessional discl

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