Mail won't let me respond quoting the text of the original message

Mail does not allow me to respond to an email quoting the original message.
I tried going to preferences>composing and selecting "quote the text of the original message." under responding. But Mail doesn't allow me to select this option.
I've also tried selecting the text in the email that I want to respond to in my reply message and that doesn't show up when I hit reply.
Has anyone else encountered this problem?

I think I've discovered what was causing my problem. In the "Preferences, Composing" section, there's a pair of radio buttons for "When quoting text in replies or forwards". Mine was set to "Include selected text if any, otherwise include all", which means that if you have any text selected, only that text is included. It would appear that I was often selecting text while browsing through.
Setting the other radio button ("Include all of the original message") makes the behaviour go away.
I suspect that this may not be the only problem in this thread, but the fix worked for me!

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