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{{quote|''"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."''|'''Karl Marx''''s last words.}}
{{quote|''"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,''
''and think they grow immortal as they quote."''|'''Edward Young'''}}
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{{quote|''Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.''|Hesketh Pearson, ''Common Misquotations'', Introduction}}
{{quote|''Ah, yes! I wrote "The Purple Cow" --
''I'm sorry now I wrote it!
''But I can tell you anyhow,
''I'll kill you if you quote it!''|Gelett Burgess}}
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{{quote|''By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.''|Ralph Waldo Emerson}}
{{quote|'''Ben Franklin:''' Treason is a word invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers.
'''John Adams:''' I have better things to do than stand here listening to you quote yourself.
'''Ben Franklin:''' No, that was a new one!|from ''[[1776]]''}}
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