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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Or Mark Twain or Oscar Wilde?
People do seem to like to attribute quotes, even if they have no idea who actually originated them.
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That brings us full circle to something that I said (or at least implied) in the O.P.: people don't care enough about the truth. That's why historical fiction and stuff like that proliferates. So what if Lincoln, or Twain, or Wilde didn't really say it????? The quote sounds good, we don't know who really originated it, so we'll make up somebody as the one who said it.
I rest my case.