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The useful menagerie, Who actually said that, The completists, Ambient data,
Made on the old machines, Never out of production, Six groans (third serving),
Nothing to win here. All items previously unbundled; zero reuse.
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title: "Who actually said that"
date: 2026-07-03
tags: [daily-finds, quotes, attribution]
description: "Seven famous lines put under the provenance microscope — misattributions debunked, true authors restored."
blurb: "Famous lines traced to their real authors — some survive the trip."
items:
- boulay-crime-blunder
- judy-garland-lips-soul-poem
- do-not-confine-children-1887
- quote-if-we-knew-research
- renyi-mathematician-coffee
- ward-listen-think
- borge-laughter-distance
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> Famous lines put under the microscope. Some dissolve on contact — the "Einstein" one isn't his, the "Tagore" one is an 1887 Boston proverb, the "Napoleon" quip belongs to an obscure magistrate — and one, pleasingly, turns out to be exactly whose it always sounded like.