Citation : répétition erronée d’une déclaration d’autrui. Extrait repris avec des erreurs.

Ambrose Bierce – Le Dictionnaire du Diable (1906)

 

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QUOTATION, n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.

Intent on making his quotation truer,

He sought the page infallible of Brewer,

Then made a solemn vow that we would be

Condemned eternally. Ah, me, ah, me!