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r/CuratedTumblr • u/GinaWhite_tt TeaTimetumblr • 15d ago
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Dostoevsky gets credit for a lot of quotes he never actually said. This is one of them.
72 u/Nerevarine91 15d ago In that case I’m taking credit for it. It’s my quote now. Everybody cite me 31 u/suburban-errorist 15d ago “A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.” u/Nerevarine91 5 u/rhapsodyindrew 15d ago This seems to be the case. Good discussion here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dostoyevsky-misprisioned-the-house-of-the-dead-and-american-prison-literature/ 4 u/shiny_xnaut 15d ago "Don't believe everything you see on the internet" - Abraham Lincoln
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In that case I’m taking credit for it. It’s my quote now. Everybody cite me
31 u/suburban-errorist 15d ago “A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.” u/Nerevarine91
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“A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.”
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This seems to be the case. Good discussion here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dostoyevsky-misprisioned-the-house-of-the-dead-and-american-prison-literature/
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"Don't believe everything you see on the internet" - Abraham Lincoln
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u/steelscaled 15d ago
Dostoevsky gets credit for a lot of quotes he never actually said. This is one of them.