Ybq biography of albert einstein
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Mark Twain? James Wayle? Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar? Walter Winchell? Anonymous?
Dear Quote Investigator: In the past few days several phony quotations were widely disseminated on the internet; in other words, they went viral. My question is about a saying that might be genuine. A CNN article contains the following expression attributed to Mark Twain:
I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Do you think this is correct?
Quote Investigator: The author of the CNN article carefully refrained from definitively crediting the words to Twain [CNMT]. Instead, he said that the phrase had “long been attributed to Twain”.
This saying has not been found in Twain’s writings, and it is not included in the TwainQuotes.com repository. Website editor Barbara Schmidt states that currently “there is no evidence that links Mark Twain to the funeral quote” [TQMT].
Indeed, the basic joke was credited to Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar in 1884 and this ascription was mentioned in news reports for decades afterwards. During his long career, Hoar was a lawyer, a Massachusetts Supreme Court Judge, and an Attorney General of the United States.
The funeral referred to in the jest was for the prominent abolitionist and orator We
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Quotes Uncovered: The Universe and Stupidity
By Fred Shapiro
Quotes Uncovered
Here are more quote authors and origins Shapiro’s tracked down recently.
Seventeen weeks ago I invited readers to submit quotations for which they wanted me to try to trace the origins, using The Yale Book of Quotations and more recent research by me. Hundreds of people have responded via comments or e-mails. I am responding as best I can, a few per week.
Maria asked:
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you don’t care who gets the credit.” Reagan? Truman? Lincoln? Some 19th-century white woman I saw credited with it on a poster many years ago?
Please help.
The Yale Book of Quotations, which attempts to trace all famous quotations to their earliest documented occurrences, cites:
“There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.”
Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment (1922).
Bette Neumann asked:
“The most powerful force in the universe is compound interest,” or “Compound interest is the greatest mathematical discovery of all time.”
It’s often attributed to Albert Einstein, but debunked by Snopes.
The YBQ cites The New York