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That is the point of quotations. One can use anothers words to be

That is the point of quotations. One can use anothers words to be insulting. – Amanda Cross

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My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book,—it is a plaything. – Thomas Love Peacock, Crotchet Castle, 1831 (The Rev. Dr. Folliott)

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