quotations
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After Nowak took his turn, choosing to remain seated, Sikorski returned to the podium and warned him that personal attacks, misquotations, and mistranslations would not be considered persuasive at Cambridge.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 23, 2018
“Dinner-table conversations,” Bonnie thinks, “were full of information, not always accurate, and full of earnest misquotations; the boys’ manners if not always perfect were adequate, and the dining-room mirror obediently reflected them all.”
From The New Yorker • Feb. 16, 2015
But some simplified misquotations lose their original flavour.
From The Guardian • Feb. 26, 2011
Some misquotations, though possibly weaker in content, sound better: such as "Possession is nine points of the law" in place of Colley Cibber's "Possession is 11 points in the law".
From The Guardian • Feb. 26, 2011
There are the usual misquotations, nor does my blue jogging suit escape comment.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
