Example sentences for: oft-quoted

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  • Seems as reasonable a resume as being a quasi-Texas rich kid with $56 million to burn on being Big Oil's Puppet President, and indeed, Jesse's utterances on drug and prostitution decriminalization, on the need for unions, and the oft-quoted snap about organized religion being a crutch for the weak-minded and an excuse to stick their noses in other people's business, are the kind of discussion I haven't heard from a politician since Abbie Hoffman took it on the lam.

  • "Americans of all ages, all stations in life, and all types of dispositions are forever forming associations," Tocqueville reported in a famous, oft-quoted passage.

  • ’ The oft-quoted citation is from the Discours sur le style , his acceptance speech delivered before the Académie Françcaise on August 25, 1753.

  • There is that oft-quoted example, near the opening of Trial by Jury , where Defendant asks, “Is this the Court of the Exchequer?”

  • This supposition relies heavily on Oliver Wendell Holmes' oft-quoted observation that Roosevelt was a "second-class intellect but a first class temperament."


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