My favorite quotation quotation is from William Hazlitt who said “You terrify me by repeating what I say.” Actually he didn’t say it, he was quoting James Northcote, an erstwhile famous society portraitist of the Georgian era who would be all but forgotten today if he hadn’t been extensively quoted by Hazlitt. Maybe there’s a lesson in there somewhere… (not that Hazlitt is very well remembered at this point…)
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- alex 9-14-2005 4:18 pm