Don’t believe quotation websites
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Don’t believe quotation websites
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#2But do trust this one, it's fab: http://quoteinvestigator.com. I mean the top post there right now is that "a million deaths is a statistic" traces to Beilby Porteus, a classics scholar from 1759. How can you beat that?
Also, Wikiquote is good as a base.
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#3Though it may seem fallacious, information garnered through the interweb is commonly infallible.
-Abraham Lincoln
Edit: Honestly, downvote this. HN is better than stupid, panderous posts like this.
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#4There's a book that only includes researched and vetted quotations: Respectfully quoted: A dictionary of quotations requested from the Congressional Research Service
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#5I know most people don't trust quotation websites but I found a great Man and Van Removals Company http://wjmtransport.co.uk and received a great free no obligation quote so I think it's a good idea to get quotes from these websites.
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#6It's not only quotation websites.
In Germany "If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter" is a well-known quote from Goethe - except that it isn't from Goethe.
To the best of my knowledge it is from Blaise Pascal and it took me about an hour of research to be confident enough use the quote with this attribution.
This was way too much time spent for a simple quotation, so my question is: Is there a reliable canonical source for quotations? Maybe something good journalists use?
I know there are several quotation dictionaries but are they any good?
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#7It's not only quotation websites. In Germany "If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter" is a well-known quote from Goethe - except that it isn't from Goethe. To the best of my knowledge it is from Blaise Pascal and it took me about an hour of research to be confident enough use the quote with this attribution. This was way too much time spent for a simple quotation, so my question is: Is there a reli…
A friend of mine curated a couple hundred pages worth of quotations with citations to original works into a book called Quotes of Note: Brilliant Thoughts Arranged by Subject (there's another Quotes of Note that came later and is probably a TM violation). It's on Amazon.
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#8"If you have heard of the person to whom the quote is attributed then it is wrong."
- Moses
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#9It's not only quotation websites. In Germany "If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter" is a well-known quote from Goethe - except that it isn't from Goethe. To the best of my knowledge it is from Blaise Pascal and it took me about an hour of research to be confident enough use the quote with this attribution. This was way too much time spent for a simple quotation, so my question is: Is there a reli…
Interesting. I've always heard that quote ascribed to Niels Bohr.
Perhaps he was just the first Dane to use it. I guess in older times, you could get credit for a quote if you were the first in a country to use it. From http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/ it looks like Benjamin Franklin was among the first Americans. But then again, what can we really trust?
Maybe we should just attribute all quotes to Mark Twain and be done with it.
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#10"640K ought to be enough for anybody."