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I do not see that it is less unjustifiable to attach false meanings to words correctly quoted, than to forge quotations.
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gutenberg.orgHorace Mann: “I do not see that it is less unjustifiable to attach false meanings to words correctly quoted, than to forge quotations.”
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Mann argues that misrepresenting correctly quoted words is as unjustifiable as forging quotations.
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