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Using MLA, how do I document the quote by Lord Alfred Tennyson "Better to have loved and lost than never.....
"Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all"
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- MelliLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
You do not need to give sources for familiar proverbs, well-known quotations or common knowledge. Remember, this is a rhetorical choice, based on audience. If you're writing for an expert audience of a scholarly journal, they'll have different expectations of what constitutes common knowledge.
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Therefore you do not have to document this quote.