The Devil's Dictionary: Quotation

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
QUORUM
QUOTIENT

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. Ah, me, ah, me!

- Stumpo Gaker

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