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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
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.
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Case dismissed. People don't spread spurious quotes because they don't care about the truth, but because they don't know what the truth is. Not caring about the truth isn't why people are interested in historical fiction. People are interested in what it was life was like in the past. If they sometimes read inaccurate historical fiction without knowing it is inaccurate, that's not an indictment against historical fiction, but an indictment against bad historical fiction.
As far as spurious quotes go, quite often what is said is more important that who said it.