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Please edit or correct or delete this quote. (part 4)
I believe this quote has two words wrong. It says " ... 'I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better remain in the dark.'" The ebook copy I'm reading has it as, " ... 'I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better APPRECIATE the dark.'"I think this an error and not a difference between editions (since all copies, so far, are either 2011 or 2012), so could someone change 'remain in' to be 'appreciate'?
Please and thank you!
#557: Deleted the version without a "like". Unsure whether to proceed on the other, so will leave for another librarian.
Banjomike wrote: "Katherine wrote: "I posted my first quote - yay! - but added too much information. I'd like to remove "by Katherine Valdez" and the book title from the following, but there doesn't seem to be a wa..."
Thanks so much!---Katherine
Please delete the quote I have on my page. Thank you.
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rivka wrote: "Ah. It's not possible to add an apostrophe in that first character spot."I've tried an alternative squiggle. Would that do?
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7268...
Romina wrote: "With the apostrophe before the word Cause but Cause should also be capitalized. When it was changed to include the apostrophe, for some reason the C was changed to miniscule. "Uppercase "C" installed.
Zinnober 9 wrote: "Message 556 has yet to be fixed."Done.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4950...
There is a sentence missing from the middle of this quotation but I'm not sure it adds to it. What do you think?
I can't edit this myself, but it needs a period at the end. I just merged it with a version containing the period, but since that one has only 3 likes and this one has 500+, the incomplete one won.https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2073...
Sophie wrote: "I can't edit this myself, but it needs a period at the end. I just merged it with a version containing the period, but since that one has only 3 likes and this one has 500+, the incomplete one won...."Done. The largest number of likes will always win.
Banjomike wrote: "There is a sentence missing from the middle of this quotation ..."
I don't think it needs that sentence since it contains no dialog and doesn't add any missing elements to the air of the quote.
Thanks for your help!
Banjomike wrote: "The largest number of likes will always win."Yeah, I know. I just wish I could edit it myself.
There's a typo in this quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7253...It should read "chances" and not "chance". I'd be very thankful if one of the librarian could fix it.
Thanks in advance.
Katja wrote: "There's a typo in this quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7253...It should read "chances" and not "chance". I'd be very thankful if one..."
Done
Pretty sure this quote is correcthttps://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5730...
this one is not correct
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9694...
pls merge
582 done.Lobstergirl wrote: "Pretty sure this quote is correct
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5730...
this one is not correct
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/969..."
Would you attribute this quote to its book? https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2672...In Time of Peril
Thank you!
:)
T.K. wrote: "Would you attribute this quote to its book? https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2672...In Time of Peril
Thank you!
:)"
Done
Banjomike wrote: "T.K. wrote: "Would you attribute this quote to its book? https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2672...In Time of Peril
Thank..."
Merci!
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes...Please change un for in ...
“I don't have a choice but to want to do this, Lola. I'm un love with you.”
Would you attribute this quote to its book?https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2228...
Book:Between Dunes and Hard Places
Thank you!
592 done.T.K. wrote: "Would you attribute this quote to its book?
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2228...
Book:[book:Between Dunes and Hard Places|257..."
Guatón wrote: "592 done.T.K. wrote: "Would you attribute this quote to its book?
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2228...
Book:[book:Between D..."
Thanks!
Hi again! Would you attribute - this quote https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7091...belongs to this book:
Tick Bite Fever
Thanks!
Arenda wrote: "#595 done"Super! Thanks!
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7444... its a misquote and should say: and the last few words should be "that white man is trash" not "he is trash". how do I delete or edit it? its popular but should not be merged as the other less popular quotes it would remove are actually correct.Can a super please fix this?
Thanks
Lisa wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7444... its a misquote and should say: and the last few words should be "that white man is trash" not "he is trash"". how do I delete or edit it? its popular but should not be merged as the other less popular quotes it would remove are actually correct.Can a super please fix this?
Thanks "
Edited & changed Chapter to 23. I've combined two very similar versions but left the one that begins "The one place where a man ought".
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6952...This quote says it is from Middlemarch, but it was on page 501 of Adam Bede. Can we fix that?
Shakespeare's quotes are rather messy.Many of these from the first 3 pages have thousands of likes, so they'll need a superlibrarian to straighten them out. I fixed what I could on later pages. Anything I wasn't entirely sure of, I left alone and noted below.
From the first page:
#7 -“I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed!” - Not by Shakespeare, original source is unknown.
#9 - “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” - This is a paraphrase, not an actual quote. This ought to be merged with the #5 quote - “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
#14 - “We know what we are, but not what we may be.” - Slight paraphrase. The actual quote is: "we know what we are, but know not what we may be."
Second page:
#5 - “Don't waste your love on somebody, who doesn't value it.” - This is the general gist of Benvolo's lines in Act 1 Scene 1, but I've read through it and I can't find an exact equivalent.
#22 - “Expectation is the root of all heartache.” - Not Shakespeare. Someone on Reddit has suggested it's a paraphrase of "Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises." from All's Well That Ends Well, but while the sentiment is very similar, I'm not sure the phrasing is close enough to merit combining it
#28 - “Listen to many, speak to a few.” - Paraphrased from Polonius's speech to Laerties in Hamlet. The actual quote is "Give every man thy ear but few thy voice." I spotted the actual quote at the bottom of page 4, so it can be merged too.
Third page:
#8 - “Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.” - Another paraphrase. The actual quote is: "O, swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon, / That monthly changes in her circle orb, / Lest that thy love prove likewise variable."
Fifth page:
#9 - “Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.” - Paraphrased. The actual quote is “Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.” which is about halfway down on Page 3. I couldn't figure out how to update this. When I tried, it gave me an error.
Sixth Page -
#21 - “If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.” - Paraphrased. The actual quote is: "This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." The phrasing is different enough that I figured I'd ask before changing anything.
Seventh Page -
#28 - “The best is yet to come.” - All's Well That Ends Well does have a "The best is yet to do" but “The best is yet to come.” is so well known I doubt they meant the Shakespeare version. Not sure what to do with this one.
Eleventh page -
#28 - “Discretion is the better part of valor.” - Henry IV Pt 1 has "The better part of valor is discretion", but the phrase as it's quoted is so well known, I doubt I should change it - though as it's quoted, Shakespeare didn't write it.
I accidentally didn't list this quotehttps://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7280...
as coming from any books. It should be attributed to the same author, but from this book
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Thanks!
Dear Goodreads Librarians, I misunderstood the purpose of the Quotes sections on my Author Page. I would like to ask if you could remove all the quotes that I put into both "Virginia Quotes" and "Quotes by Virginia." https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...
Thank you so much and sorry to take your time!
Virginia
#606 deleted the quotes (being praise/review, not quotes)
Hello, one of these is my fault but the following two quotes are both from The Odyssey but are not linked to it:https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7283...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1888...
Thanks!
#609 added The Odyssey to both quotes
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I posted my first quote - yay! - but added too much information. I'd like to remove "by Katherine Valdez" and the book title from the following, but there doesn't seem to be a way for me to edit my own quotes. Thanks in advance for your help!
“When life expectancy hit 95 years of age, married people around the world shouted, "Enough!" And just like that, the institution of marriage was reinvented. - from "Expiration Date" by Katherine Valdez (Baby Shoes: 100 Stories by 100 Authors)(Amazon)”
― Katherine Valdez "
There isn't. So I did.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7255...