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Everyone who’s been credited with something they didn’t say.

VerdictAll Misattributed Paraphrased Contested Unverified Accurate

Mark Twain5 entries“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.”
Benjamin Franklin4 entries“A penny saved is a penny earned.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky2 entries“Beauty will save the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi2 entries“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Oscar Wilde2 entries“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
William Shakespeare2 entries“The earth has music for those who listen.”
Winston Churchill2 entries“With integrity, nothing else counts. Without integrity, nothing else counts.”
A.A. Milne1 entry“How lucky am I to have people that make saying goodbye so hard.”
Albert Einstein1 entry“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
Anne Boleyn1 entry“Well behaved women rarely make history.”
C.S. Lewis1 entry“You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”
Dr. Seuss1 entry“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Eleanor Roosevelt1 entry“Well behaved women rarely make history.”
Ernest Shackleton1 entry“Men wanted for hazardous journey, small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful, honor and recognition in case of success.”
Goethe1 entry“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.”
Henry David Thoreau1 entry“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
Isaac Newton1 entry“Standing on the shoulders of giants.”
Kurt Vonnegut1 entry“I apologize for such a long letter—I didn’t have time to write a short one.”
Louis XIV1 entry“L’État, c’est moi. (The state, it is I.)”
Marilyn Monroe1 entry“Well behaved women rarely make history.”
Michelangelo1 entry“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
Socrates1 entry“Everything in moderation, even moderation.”
St. Augustine1 entry“Singing is praying twice.”
St. Francis of Assisi1 entry“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me bring love.”
Stephen Grellet1 entry“I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now.”
T.S. Eliot1 entry“I apologize for such a long letter—I didn’t have time to write a short one.”
The Bible1 entry“God helps those who help themselves.”
Thomas Edison1 entry“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Voltaire1 entry“Everything in moderation, even moderation.”
William Penn1 entry“I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now.”

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