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Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong H. L. Mencken, 1920, Prejudices: Second Series https://t.co/EqdAcutZaC Glad to help! https://t.co/YDkrzcDHdc

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Elementary, My Dear Watson Surprisingly, this phrase never appeared in Arthur Conan Doyle’s canonical works about Sherlock Holmes https://t.co/szoCLBPRwu George Silverman discusses the reasoning strategy of Holmes https://t.co/PshFlJSySt

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The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without (Evolved to: The graveyards are full of indispensable people) Elbert Hubbard, May 1907, The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest https://t.co/olPffcWfbb https://t.co/DgpC91zP6Q

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@heyitsnoah @Miles_Brundage (2/5) @heyitsnoah @Miles_Brundage 1865, The Heavenly Father: Lectures on Modern Atheism by Ernest Naville, Translated from the French by Henry Downton Lecture 3: The Revival of Atheism, Page 143 When its adepts cry out, Away with philosophy! they mean by that simply: We will… https://t.co/QjfDKc7Yji

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All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral—both memory and the object of memory Marcus Aurelius? Irvin D. Yalom? Apocryphal? https://t.co/kxWlkRv0E3 https://t.co/yrYJ1wsANh

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Experience keeps a dear school, yet Fools will learn in no other. Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack 1743 Key words below underlined in red “dear” means costly https://t.co/2ese7GUUb3 https://t.co/ddZBDil8Kn https://t.co/N448trVEyu

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@stephen_fried (Part 1 of 2) There is a semantic match for opposition to "restrict the art of healing", but does not mention constitution. The Selected Writings Of Benjamin Rush (1947) Edited by Dagobert D. Runes The Progress of Medicine: A Lecture, Page 233

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Why are there so many misquotations and inaccurate attributions? Answer: Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it. April 1928, My Philosophy of Industry by Henry Ford (Interview), The Forum https://t.co/S5VSyTKfN5

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@sccarlson @jessesheidlower @ryanfb Misattribution mechanisms are presented together with examples in my book: Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations https://t.co/qigwKT2kzi

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If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader. Dolly Parton, 1997, The Most Important Thing I Know Not John Quincy Adams https://t.co/lnKyrcCpls https://t.co/nRGXNkVu7c

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