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Every quote here was found in a published text of the work it comes from, and the wording you see is the wording of that text. Each one names the work, the year, where in the work it appears (chapter, act and scene, maxim number) and, for plays and novels, who says it. There's a link to the full text so you can check it yourself.
Quote sites are full of lines their authors never wrote or said. Checking against the source turns up a lot: nobody in Hamlet says "Methinks the lady doth protest too much" (Gertrude's line ends with "methinks", and in the text used here, which follows the 1623 Folio at that point, it reads "The lady protests too much, methinks"); Shaw's line is "One is not to get your heart's desire", not "to lose" it; Darwin never wrote the line about the survival of the most adaptable. If a quote couldn't be found in its source, it isn't here.
From Project Gutenberg's editions of public-domain books. Everything here was published before 1931, and every author and translator died more than 70 years ago. Translations are named next to the year: Marcus Aurelius is quoted in George Long's 1862 English, Confucius in James Legge's.
From a fixed shuffle of the hand-picked and shorter quotes, by date, so everyone sees the same quote on the same day, and it changes at your midnight. "Another quote" picks one at random.
A quote is filed under a topic when it uses the words: love, death, money and so on. It's a word match, not a judgement, so some quotes land in odd places.
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