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. It's called "fair use," and is comparable to the quotation of a short passage of a book in a review.
This may seem the ultimate in cynicism, but the second half of the quotation (about trying honesty once in a while) seems foreign to many politicians, among others.
OED2e offers a quotation dating from 1610: There runneth forth into the sea a certaine shelfe or slang, like unto an out-thrust tongue.
First published in Britain by Sidgwick & Jackson in 1985, this is quite an uneven work, entries running from “Arnold Bennett's choice of the twelve finest novels in the world” (which includes Torrents of Spring, Virgin Soil, On the Eve , and nine others, all Russian), to a quotation from Gershon Legman, “Murder is a crime.
He does not say as much expressly, but his characterization of such do-gooders as pedants (p. 215) and purists (p. 223), his persistent placing of quotation marks around words and phrases condemned by contemporary purists and pedants to signify—what?— their quaintness? their curiosity?