Shifting usage: "Who quoted this?"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Charles C Doyle wrote:
>
> Still, any teacher of literature will have encountered student essays
> that say things like "With this quote Hamlet implies . . ." or even
> "Hamlet says this quote to imply . . . ."

Parody Student: I don't know why Shakespeare is a big deal when he has
Hamlet quote these dumb clichés like 'To be or not to be'

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