How to avoid misattributing quotes

"I never said most of the things I said," Yogi Berra said. Or did he? Denise Graveline offers some tips for tracking down — and debunking — famous people's quotations: "I'm not as worried about the paraphrased quote, or even the one attributed to your daddy. But the misattribution issue is not as small a problem as it may seem. Even the U.S. Postal Service misattributed a quote on its Maya Angelou tribute stamp, a mistake so expensive they aren't going to correct it."

September 11, 2015

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