As regards the use of testimonia, it may be observed to begin with that their value must depend on the trustworthiness of the texts of the writers from whom they are taken, and further upon that of the text used by the translator, the excerptor or the quoter, about which we can know nothing for certain, though we may sometimes make probable inferences.   anvd [Please select]

But anyhow, I caught on to it in Sunday School--when I was a kid, I'm dead sure of that, and I always was a quoter.'   anvd [Please select]

Now, my acquaintance is a man of university education, a quoter of Haeckel and Darwin, with "survival of the fittest" as his guiding motto since his Jena days.   anvd [Please select]