"Beauty is truth, truth beauty" ... there sure are many who would rather believe some pretty fiction true, than appreciate that most of the best things we imagi

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty" ... there sure are many who would rather believe some pretty fiction true, than appreciate that most of the best things we imagine aren't real. The process by which I imagine attractive urban legends and inauthentic quotes being engineered is one of deliberate dishonesty (though of course some are honest errors), and it disgusts me. e.g. "you cannot fool all the people all the time, ..." - not Abraham Lincoln, "the price of liberty is eternal vigilance" - not Thomas Jefferson. There's some step involved where a quoter thinks "this is beautiful/true; I want to share it" and then decides it would make more of a splash if it were branded with a Respected Name, and that repulses me.