Re: What consitutes a quote anyways?

["*** Dave Hill" <davehill47@earthlink.net>]

<Angiebabe>
> Thank-you for the help on defining quotations.  The thing that
particualarly
> caught my attention is the definition that a quote should be more or less
> commonly used.  That makes me question the content in my collection.  For
> many of my "quotes" are not commonly used.  I have always defined a
> quotation as "something worth repeating".
> Thanks once again.
I suppose it depends on your purpose for collecting the quotation to begin
with -- is it to provide citation information for something "commonly used,"
or is it to provide thought, insight or amusement?  Roget's would be an
example of the former, the Book of Proverbs an example of the latter.
*** Dave
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