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Tag: misquote

  • That’s Not Shakespeare! Or Maybe It Is

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    “Alas, poor Yorick!” – Howl, from Howl’s Moving Castle, quoting Shakespeare When I first read Howl’s Moving Castle, I didn’t realize this was a quote from Shakespeare until I read Hamlet a year later. Funny how we tend to attribute things to the last person that we remember said them, whether or not they actually…

  • Quotable Misquotes

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    3 Ways Misquotes Happen “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” –Mahatma Gandhi  Delightful little quote, isn’t it? I’ve seen it plastered all over the net, on T-shirts, on bumper stickers. But it nicely illustrates the problem of using quotes, especially ones you find on the internet. According to Wikipedia (behold the…