I
recently blogged for HuffPost on viral quotes supposedly by Mark Twain, George Eliot and other famous authors. I tackled some of the most common (and ugliest), but I missed one that's arguably more egregious than those I listed:
Newsflash: Twain never said it, and it leads the list of the ten
most famous bogus Twain quotes. Why would anyone with half a brain or any ear for the English language think this could be by Mark Twain -- or even any other American novelist? It has no humor, no rhyth...
Published on December 10, 2014 12:24