Sayings Attributed to the Wrong Person
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1. "Anybody who hates children and dogs can't be all bad." 2. "Go west, young man! 3. "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it!" 4. "Survival of the fittest." 5. "That government is best which governs least." 6. "Cleanliness is next to godliness." 7. "A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."Attributed to W. C. Fields, actually said by Leo Rosten at a dinner introducing Fields.
Horace Greeley&md;John Doule in an article in the Terre Haute Express, 1851
Mark Twain&md;Charles Dudley Warner (editorial, the Hartford Courant, 1897)
Charles Darwin&md;Herbert Spencer (Principles of Biology, part 11, chapter 12)
Thomas Jefferson&md;Henry David Thoreau (who put it in quotation marks in Civil Disobedience and called it a "motto")
The Bible&md;John Wesley (Sermons, No. 93, "on Dress")
