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We’ve all confidently quoted things that were never actually said, slightly mangled things that were said, and occasionally attributed profound wisdom to people who were nowhere near the conversation.
Turns out, history is basically one enormous game of telephone with terrible fact-checking.
From movie lines to famous last words to quotes that somehow got stapled onto Einstein, Shakespeare, and Marie Antoinette, here are the quotes where the truth is, at best, having an interesting interpretation.
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