The Wise Words of Maya Angelou. Or Someone, Anyway. - NYTimes.com
“[The] misattribution is a textbook example of a widespread phenomenon in the world of quotations: Churchillian Drift.…
"Britons tend to attribute anything vaguely political to Churchill (and before Churchill, Disraeli); Americans like to credit anything folksy to Mark Twain, and before Twain, Benjamin Franklin."
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