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  • 2019-09-12 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Mark Twain Say, ‘The Man Who Does Not Read Has No Advantage Over The Man Who Cannot Read’? (en)
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  • A post shared on Facebook credits American writer Mark Twain with saying, The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. Verdict: False There is no substantive evidence that Twain ever said or wrote this saying. Fact Check: The internet is replete with quotes attributed to Twain, the author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Life on the Mississippi . However, some of these sayings turn out to be apocryphal, as is the case with this quote about literacy. (RELATED: Did Mark Twain Pen This Quote On Kindness?) The Daily Caller News Foundation searched a collection of Twain’s written body of work , as well as The Quotable Mark Twain , which contains more than 1,800 verified quotes, but found no record of the statement. There is no evidence the quote originated with Mark Twain, says Barbara Schmidt , a Twain researcher and writer for the Center for Mark Twain Studies that lists the quote as unverified on her website , in an email to the DCNF. The website Quote Investigator traced the earliest strong match of the expression back to a 1914 periodical , though conceptually-related phrases appeared earlier. The unattributed quote was utilized in an attempt to stop people from throwing away the advertisement without reading it, according to Quote Investigator . 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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