get_quote

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READ PIPELINE step 3 — CITE. Get the exact verbatim text of a single page plus its citation apparatus. ALWAYS use before putting text in quotation marks. The response headline is citation_link (the stable sourcelibrary.org/q/… shortlink) — present it to the user alongside the quote. Render as: > [exact translation text, verbatim] > — [Author], p. [N]. [citation_link] PAGE BREAKS: this corpus is paginated from physical leaves, and nearly one prose page-boundary in five has a sentence running across it — sometimes a word split by a hyphen ("…our move-" / "movements…"). A page that opens or breaks off mid-sentence still reads as complete prose and still carries a perfectly valid citation, so check the continuity field on every response BEFORE quoting: if continues_on_next or continues_from_previous is true, call again with context: true and quote the whole sentence. Quoting a fragment as though it were the author's complete thought is a misattribution even when the page number is right. NON-LATIN SCRIPTS: where the page is Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit, Cyrillic and so on, the response also carries romanized — the romanization of the original — so the citation can be shown in three layers: original → romanized → translation → citation_link. It is AI-generated reading apparatus, not a transcription; quote the source from original or translation, never from romanized. Absent on Latin-script pages and on non-Latin pages not yet romanized. ENGLISH ORIGINALS: where the leaf is already English there is no translation and none is needed — the response omits `translation`, sets `text_source: "ocr_original"`, and the verbatim text is `original` (with a `transcription_note`). Quote it as the source's own words, never as a translation, and expect period spelling and long-s (ſ) — it is an uncorrected transcription of the scan. `text_source` is on every response (`translation` otherwise), so branch on it rather than guessing from pages_translated, which is 0 for an English-original book by construction. TRANSLATED EDITIONS: `original` means the text printed on this leaf, which on a translated edition is the TRANSLATOR's language, not the author's. When the response carries `translation_note`, the chain is stated there — attribute the wording to the translator and do not offer the passage as evidence of what the author wrote in their own tongue. Call list_editions to find an original-language witness of the same work. For several pages of one book at once, use get_quotes.