Quotes bring a small smile

[Ray McCarthy]

As I explained over breakfast to Mrs Smallweed: “George Monbiot writes in the Guardian today, ‘As George Bush told his troops on the day he announced victory, “Wherever you go, you carry a message of hope – a message that is ancient and ever new. In the words of the prophet Isaiah, ‘To the captives, “come out”, and to those in darkness, “be free”. ’ ” ’ ”

'Quotations "within quotations": the Russian doll of punctuation'

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