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Quoting: The Act Of Repeating Erroneously The Words Of Another. -- Ambrose Bierce
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Quoting: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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Quoting: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. -- Ambrose Bierce
QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
The words erroneously repeated. Intent on making his quotation truer, He sought the page infallible of Brewer, Then made a solemn vow that we would be Condemned eternally....
INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another se
an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act....
Appeal, vt. In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw. -- Ambrose Bierce
Interpreter, n.: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Defame, v.t. To lie about another. To tell the truth about another. -- Ambrose Bierce
The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself.
-- Larry Wall...