The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), February 9th, 2007
To the Editor:
In his recent letter, author Larry Williams chides a previous letter writer for mis-attributing two quotes to a pair of prominent Republican presidents - Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt - to support some ideological point.
He follows by "accurately" quoting Mark Twain as follows: "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." I made a living using this quotation for years as a quality engineer.
However, the true author of this famous quote is not Mark Twain but Charles Farrar Browne, a popular American humorist who wro...
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