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Ilithiophobia

"I hate quotation. Tell me what you know."

That's from Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England Transcendentalist. To be fair, this is out of context. Here is the full quote: 

"Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know."

Ralph Waldo Emerson Journals, May 1849

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