# English Wikiquote quotations

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English Wikiquote is the sole quotation source. The complete official 2026-10-01 pages-articles snapshot was processed, with archive SHA1/MD5 checked against Wikimedia's published checksums. Every namespace-zero page and every structural bullet candidate is retained in the private research inventory; structural candidates are not automatically accepted quotes. Public quote counts describe the eligible subset, not the site's article count or complete public coverage.

Each displayed quotation keeps its Wikiquote page title, permanent revision link, section and retained source locator. Page subjects can be works, people, themes, fictional dialogue or proverbs; a page title is not an inferred author. Changes: nonexecuting wiki links and emphasis are rendered as plain text, editorial notes are removed from display locators, equivalent quotations are deduplicated. The quotation itself must match a verified source edition without changing case, omitting words or joining passages.

Wikiquote editors' selection and arrangement is reused under [CC BY-SA 4.0](CC-BY-SA-4.0.txt), with attribution through each page/revision's contributor history. The original quoted works keep their separate rights; Wikiquote's site licence is not blanket clearance for third-party quotations. The eligible subset matches original text in verified Project Gutenberg U.S. public-domain editions, individually inspected official-duty U.S. presidential sources under 17 USC 105, or an explicit original-author CC BY 4.0 article. Each quotation retains its separate exact original-source rights evidence; government site hosting alone is insufficient. These editions are evidence of underlying rights and exact wording, not additional daily-quote collection sources. Regional rights remain unverified. Bible and other strongly religious scripture, devotional passages, sermons and doctrine are excluded from learner-facing daily quotes and reading selection. Their raw records and exclusion evidence are retained; uncertain cases remain withheld. Ordinary literary references to religion are not excluded merely for mentioning a word such as “God”. Known underlying-rights restrictions remain separate from this content policy. For collected plays and essays, exact evidence must also fall inside the specifically cited subwork; matching another work in the same volume is insufficient. Unknown-rights modern quotes, disputed or unsourced attributions, complex markup and unmatched texts remain excluded in the private inventory. No worldwide clearance is asserted.

Sources: [English Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/), [official dump](https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwikiquote/20261001/), [Wikiquote copyrights](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Copyrights), [Wikimedia reuse terms](https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Terms_of_Use#7._Licensing_of_Content).

Only the exact calendar date can select a date-related pool. All other dates draw from all eligible pages, with pages sampled evenly before selecting a quotation. The last displayed text is excluded, including equivalent text on another page. Literary dialogue is attributed context, not advice or a language-proficiency assessment.

Qualified quotations also supply reading practice through the existing client generator. Each quotation is separate; quotations are never joined into invented continuous prose or automatically assigned a beginner level. The underlying original work is the exposure and transfer identity, even when quoted on multiple Wikiquote pages. Full cloud processing and downloaded result integrity are recorded separately from local package/offline checks.

The earlier 2026-10-12 Colab run retained 3,000 modern candidates separately from publication and admitted 19 individually inspected quotations. A subsequent owned CPU batch reprocessed the complete snapshot and checked 1,200 explicitly allowlisted Gutenberg editions, retaining 1,111 verified English U.S. public-domain editions for exact-source discovery. Codex AI individually inspected 2,873 new quote wordings and their admission scopes; 2,166 new quotations passed the final cloud source/revision/span/hash recheck. The current resources contain 3,208 Daily quotations and 3,055 separate reading quotations supported by the existing client generator. The original 1,042 Daily quotations, 940 reading quotations and their provenance are retained. Uninspected candidates, unclear original-work/secondary/editor scopes and language/content exclusions remain held with raw evidence.

Daily selection has no publication-age preference or year cutoff. Readable older English and English translations remain eligible; common archaic forms such as thou/thee/hath/doth, difficult dialect and individually inspected old constructions are held. This review is not a complete historical-language classification or CEFR calibration. Exact-date association and previous-wording exclusion remain unchanged. Ordinary reading continues to prioritise non-Wikiquote primary materials and keeps the existing session-level quotation quota and distinct-original-work application rules.

Original CC BY 4.0 quotation: Michael D. Beecher (2021), *Why Are No Animal Communication Systems Simple Languages?*, Frontiers in Psychology, [DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.602635](https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.602635), [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The abstract excerpt is unchanged. Government original-source URLs and the USA-only rights basis are retained per quotation.

[Complete offline catalogue and source/rights evidence](catalogue.json) retains every admitted record unchanged. The first-screen display index contains the same quotation text, identity, locator, permanent Wikiquote link and applicable licence link; full exact-source/underlying-rights records remain in this separately cached catalogue. This packaging change grants no additional rights or acceptance.