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  • 2019-08-16 (xsd:date)
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  • ‘Eat A Live Frog’ — Did Mark Twain Tell People To Do This Every Morning? (en)
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  • A post shared on Facebook claims author Mark Twain wrote, Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. Verdict: False There is no evidence that Twain ever said or wrote this saying. Fact Check: Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, has become a popular figure for misattribution. The quote credited to him in the Facebook post is one such example. (RELATED: Did Ralph Waldo Emerson Say This Quote About ‘What Lies Within Us’?) A search of his written body of work turned up no matching or similar expressions. It also does not appear in Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations or the Yale Book of Quotations . The Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to several experts, none of whom thought the quote was Twain’s. Quote Investigator , a website dedicated to researching the source of quotations, believes the saying attributed to the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer actually came from 18th-century French writer Nicolas Chamfort, though the wording varied slightly when translated from its original French. The quote, according to Quote Investigator , was first linked to Twain in 1988, over 70 years after his death . All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter’s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact [email protected] . (en)
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