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

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About Hesketh Pearson

Edward Hesketh Gibbons Pearson (20 February 1887 – 9 April 1964) was an English actor, theatre director and writer. He is known mainly for his biographies; they made him the leading British biographer of his time, in terms of commercial success.

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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

—Hesketh Pearson

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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

—Dorothy L. Sayers

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If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.

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The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

—Amanda Cross

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