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Artemus Ward: Respected Sir—My wife was afflicted with the pipsywipsy in the head for nearly eight years. The doctors all gave her up. But in a fortunate moment she went to one of your lectures, and c...
Had learned four important lessons: The Google Books database is an enormously powerful and valuable tool for researchers. Dates (and other items of metadata) provided by Google Books are sometimes in...
Six Quotes to Get You Through Any Senior Exam. Use Them Wisely:8 Indian summer is like a woman, ripe, hotly passionate but fickle. —Grace Metalious Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. —Lio...
You may be shocked by how fragile information is, and I fear it is only getting worse.
Using an Internet search engine to learn more about these sayings can be both a revelatory and exasperating experience. Search engines contain link after link to websites with faulty information, repe...
Satyagraha is peaceful. If words fail to convince the adversary perhaps purity, humility, and honesty will. The opponent must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy, weaned, not crushed; conver...
I think my favorite weapon is a twenty-dollar bill. —Raymond Chandler The
How did I begin investigating the dubious origins of familiar quotations? I will tell you: In the 1990s I developed an enthusiasm for electronic books.
Mark Twain, Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill, Dorothy Parker, and Yogi Berra are quotation superstars. Personas of this type are so vibrant and attractive that they become hosts for...
Interestingly, over a long period, a popular expression can shift ascriptions multiple times as the fame of individuals expands and contracts. You may be shocked by how fragile information is, and I f...
In 1996, as discussed earlier, Gates denied that he made the remark. He also questioned the existence of any solid reference for the statement: