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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. — Simeon Strunsky

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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky
No Mean City · 1944
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Strunsky, Simeon. No Mean City. E.P. Dutton, 1944, ch. 38.

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