If we can’t verify it, we don’t print it.

Yes — that’s the whole point. Every line is traced to its primary source: the actual book, the edition, and for translated work, the translator and year. If we can’t verify it, we don’t print it. When scholarship is genuinely divided, we say so on the product page. We’d rather lose the sale than put the wrong name under a line.

“Be the change you wish to see in the world” traces to Arleen Lorrance in 1974, not Gandhi. “Do not go where the path may lead” is Muriel Strode, 1903, not Emerson. When the true source turns out to be an unexpected name, that’s not us getting it wrong. That’s verification doing its job.

We sort every quote into one of three buckets. Verified: traced to a primary source, clean attribution. Commonly attributed: widely linked to a name without a solid source. We’ll only produce it if we disclose that. Disputed: real evidence of misattribution. We don’t sell it under the false name, full stop.

Provenance is the documented origin of a thing — where it came from, and how you know. For us it means every line on every product can be traced back to a real source. If we can’t show you where a quote came from, we don’t sell it.