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They never said it : a book of fake quotes, misquotes, and misleading attributions

Abraham Lincoln never said, ""You cannot fool all the people all the time."" Thomas Jefferson never said, ""That government is best which governs least."" And Horace Greeley never said, ""Go west, young man."" In They Never Said It, Paul F. Boller, Jr. and John George examine hundreds of misquotations, incorrect attributions, and blatant fabrications, outlining the origins of the quotes and revealing why we should consign them to the historical trashcan. Many of the misquotes are quite harmless. Some are inadvertent misquotes that have become popular (Shakespeare actually said, ""The best part
eBook, English, 1989
Oxford University Press, New York, 1989
1 online resource (1 electronic recource (xxv, 159 pages))
9780198022220, 9781280525032, 9781601297754, 9780199879168, 0198022220, 1280525037, 1601297750, 0199879168
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Adams, John; Addison, Joseph; Allen, Ethan; Armstrong, Neil; Beria, Lavrenti; Bible; Bogart, Humphrey; Boyer, Charles; Brezhnev, Leonid; Burke, Edmund; Butler, Samuel; Cagney, James; Cambronne, Pierre Jacques Etienne; Carlyle, Thomas; Cervantes, Miguel de; Churchill, Winston; Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Cohen, Israel; Colson, Charles; Communist Party Directive; Congreve, William; Coolidge, Calvin; Darwin, Charles; Devereux, James P.S.; Dimitrov, Georgi; Disraeli, Benjamin; Donaldson, Sam; Durocher, Leo; Edison, Thomas Alva; Eisenhower, Dwight D.; Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Fields, W.C. Francis IFranklin, Benjamin; Frietchie, Barbara; Gaither, Rowan; Galileo; Garbo, Greta; Garfield, James A.; Gaulle, Charles de; Gibbon, Edward; Gipp, George; Goering, Hermann; Goldwater, Barry M.; Goldwyn, Sam; Gordon, Sol; Greeley, Horace; Hall, Gus; Hecht, Ben; Hitler, Adolf; Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.; Holmes, Sherlock; Hoover, Herbert; Hopkins, Harry; Howard, Roy; Humanist Manifesto II; Ickes, Harold; Ingersoll, Robert G.; Jackson, Andrew; Japanese Government Memo; Jefferson, Thomas; Jones, John Paul; Kant, Immanuel; Kautsky, Karl; Khrushchev, Nikita; Kissinger, Henry Knights of ColumbusLawrence, James; Lenin, Vladimir Ilyitch; Lincoln, Abraham; Long, Huey; Longworth, Alice Roosevelt; Louis XIV; Maguire, William A.; Mankiewicz, Herman; Manuilsky, Dimitri; Marie Antoinette; Marx, Groucho; Mather, Cotton; Napoleon I [Napoleon Bonaparte]; Nash, Ogden; Newton, Sir Isaac; Nixon, Richard M.; O'Hair, Madalyn Murray; Otis, James; Paine, Thomas; Pepys, Samuel; Pershing, John J.; Pétain, Marshal Henri Philippe; Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth; Prescott, William; The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion; Rabinovich, Rabbi Emanuel; Reagan, Ronald; Reed, John Reuther, WalterRogers, Will; Roosevelt, Franklin D.; Rules for Revolution; Scholz, Jackson; Sévigné, Marquise de; Shaw, George Bernard; Sheridan, Philip; Sherman, William Tecumseh; Stalin, Josef; Sutton, Willie; Taft, Robert A.; Talmud; Tocqueville, Alexis de; Twain, Mark; Voltaire [Jean François Arouet]; Washington, George; Wellington, 1st Duke of; Wilson, Charles; Wilson, Woodrow; Wise, Stephen; Woollcott, Alexander; Zhou En-lai; Zinoviev, Grigori; Notes; Index
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