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Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Mary Shelley
I dwell in Possibility—
Emily Dickinson
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
The Quoteiac Journal
We Got One Wrong: The Poe Quote That Was Actually Washington Irving's
We sold three products with this line on them: "There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm." The attribution on every one of them read: Edgar Allan Poe. It isn't Poe's. It's Washington Irving's — ...
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Why We Check Quote Attribution Before Anything Goes on a Shirt
One of the most-quoted lines on the internet is attributed to Abraham Lincoln: "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." Lincoln never said it. Th...
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The Soul Becomes Dyed: What Marcus Aurelius and Thoreau Actually Said
Earlier this week, on an episode of The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett, Ivanka Trump paraphrased two lines that stopped us mid-listen. Not because of who said them on the podcast — because of ...
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