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Re:Who Really Said That? by gruseom on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @01:53PM (#6446136)
The Quote Investigator is the best. The site is the avocation of someone pseudonymous who tracks these things down meticulously and has been building up a sizeable repertoire. The great thing is that since nearly all these quotations go back decades if not centuries, once one of them has been traced, it's pretty much traced for good.

One of my favorites is http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/28/ford-faster-horse.

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Re:Who Really Said That? by tokenadult on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @03:05PM (#6446602)
Yes, let me add to gruseom's endorsement of Quote Investigator. These days, every time I see a quotation floating around among my Facebook friends, I Google with appropriately chosen keywords, and almost always Quote Investigator shows that the attribution is different from what people suppose.
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