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Famous quotes containing the words text and/or lines:

“I am so glad you have been able to preserve the text in all of its impurity.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

“The opera isn’t over till the fat lady sings.”
—Anonymous.

A modern proverb along the lines of “don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.” This form of words has no precise origin, though both Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (16th ed., 1992)