Dismissing Quotes
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Being up on something is a way of dismissing it. To espouse any point of view is a danger — it might leave us stuck with last year's cause. Prized for their novelty alone, ideas, gimmicks, trends become equivalent, interchangeable.
Edmund White— "New York City" (p. 260)
But when ill indeed, E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
colman, george, the younger— Lodgings for Single Gentlemen, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
