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| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 48846 |
| QUOTATION: | O, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), Scottish novelist, poet. Marmion, cto. 6, st. 17 (1808). J.R. Pope, in A Word of Encouragement, added to this the lines, “But when we’ve practised quite a while/How vastly we improve our style.” |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Scott Collection. |
| The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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