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About this project

This investigation began when I started noticing, in the course of my everyday life, constant quotations of Mark Twain that I would look up then find he never said. I have always been a person who kept a log of quotes I enjoyed, so I began looking up the sources to many of the quotes I had written down only to find that it was not, in fact, Winston Churchill who said that pithy phrase, or St. Francis of Assisi with that melodic prayer.

I am worried we are losing grasp of history with our unscrutinized quoting of legendary folk; the more research I conduct, the more I find that our belief structures are built on cornerstones of sand. Stay sharp. Good luck and Godspeed.