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Issues with Quotes > On the Destructive Combining of Quotes

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Xenophon Hendrix (xenophon_hendrix) | 11 comments Please use common sense when combining quotes. As a relevant example, I had up a pithy quote by John Adams:

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

An overzealous quote combiner joined it with something that was less of a quote and more of a long excerpt, thus totally ruining the quote. This is ungood.


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