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.
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As quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1941) by Alice Mary Smyth, p. viiCarl Van Doren
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
Winston Churchill
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.
Anthony Kennedy
How the false truths of the years of youth have passed!
Have passed at full speed like trains which never stopped
There where I stood and waited, hardly aware,
How little I knew, or which of them was the one
To mount and ride to hope or where true hope arrives.Delmore Schwartz
A Health, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Edward Coote Pinkney
My Maryland; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
James Ryder Randall
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