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That's quite an extensive investigation to read!

• dang 6y ago
  After 10 years he has built up quite a repertoire, and it's starting to get rarer to run across a quote he hasn't covered. The primary lesson is that almost every famous quotation has been misattributed, inevitably to someone more famous. It's surprisingly unusual to find a famous quote that the famous person actually said.
  • telesilla 6y ago
    Except Churchill, I'm sure
    • dang 6y ago
      I'm afraid Churchill is very much included. He didn't say "up with which I will not put", he didn't say "I am drunk but you are ugly and in the morning I shall be sober", he didn't say "if I were your husband I'd drink that poison", and so on. He didn't say most of the best Churchill lines. Lincoln didn't say most of the best Lincoln lines either. Same with Mark Twain, Einstein, and so on.