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Stephen Sniderman created this feature. He is professor of English at Youngstown State University, contributing editor to Games magazine and Games World of Puzzles, and author of Language LoversWord Puzzles (Sterling Publishing, 2002) and Stanley Newman Presents Grid Play (Random House, 2003).    
Don't Quote Me    

The sentences below are quotations from well-known people. Unfortunately, a computer virus has divided each word with seven or more letters into two parts and changed one letter in each part, making a (usually nonsensical) two-word phrase. Can you help us recover the of these ? You'll have to change one letter in each word of each capitalized phrase and bring the two halves together. If you're still , click on the scrambled words to reveal the answers.

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1. It is thus that mutual   keeps us in peace.    
  —Samuel    
 
2. That which we call sin in others, is   for us.
  —Ralph Waldo
 
3. The books that the world calls    are the books that show the world its own shame.
  —Oscar Wilde
 
4. You   in poetry. You govern in prose.
  —Mario Cuomo
 
5.  is all the fun you think they had.
  —Erica Jong
 
6. Few great men could pass  .
  —Paul 
 
7. It is a      that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
  —Tom Lehrer
 
8. If    fits you    enough, you call it  .
  —Robert Frost
   
9. I envy  ; they    feel people are paying    to them.
  —Susan Sontag
   
10.  is the virtue of the man   .
  —G. K.  
   
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