Three or four million heads of families don’t turn into tramps and cheats overnight, nor do they lose the habits and standards o
f a lifetime…. They don’t drink any more than the rest of us, they don’t lie any more, they’re no lazier than the rest of us…. An eighth or a tenth of the earning population does not change its character which has been generations in the molding, or, if such a change actually occurs, we can scarcely charge it up to personal sin. —federal relief administrator Harry Hopkins
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<h3>What is a quotation?</h3>
A quotation can be regarded as the repetition of a sentence as well as as a passage which can be taken from a particular speech or text that from the work of an author.
It serves as the representation of an utterance from the quotative marker hence, questions that would help a reader understand the quotation are: