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Except Mark Twain never said that https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/and-never-the-twain-shall-tweet/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/and-never-the-twain-shal

Except Mark Twain never said that https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/and-never-the-twain-shall-tweet/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/and-never-the-twain-shall-...

PaulHoule 2y ago
He spent some time in Elmira, NY, back when the world was -1.5 °C colder, so he experienced worse winters.
- BobbyJo 2y ago
  I grew up there partially. Its a terrible place now.
JJMcJ 2y ago
According to Albert Einstein, or maybe Benjamin Franklin.
- benatkin 2y ago
  Philly area :)
- kevin_thibedeau 2y ago
  Definitely Churchill.
  - dekhn 2y ago
    This is a situation up with which I shall put
- jrnichols 2y ago
  narrated by Morgan Freeman, probably.
benatkin 2y ago
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, then
deepsun 2y ago
It's typical now for half the quotes online. So it's easier to make it "As Mark Twain famously never said, ...".
- bluejekyll 2y ago
  I suspect that Mark Twain would even greatly appreciate the humor in referring to it that way.
  - dgacmu 2y ago
    He once said he would, in fact! ;)
    - m463 2y ago
      Is Mark Twain still alive? I heard they exaggerated his death...
- flyinghamster 2y ago
  See also, Winston Churchill. https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/ https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/ It's especially instructive to call up the list of fakes from that page (it isn't directly linkable due to JS stupidity).
tbrownaw 2y ago
> Except Mark Twain never said that Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
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