Dossier 004
Marie Antoinette
France remembered the sentence she never spoke. The cake, the caricature and the woman beneath both face the evidence.
Open the dossierFamous words · Tested against the record
Who Said That?!
A famous quotation is often only the beginning. We follow the words through surviving records, meet the human being behind the reputation and label certainty, doubt and invention for what they are.
Dossier 003
Socrates
A barefoot veteran became the most quoted man who never wrote a word. Which sayings survive the filter?
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Dossier 001
Vespasian
Before the imperial purple came the mule trader. Three sayings and one remarkably practical emperor go on trial.
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Dossier 002
Mark Twain
His wit made him a magnet for other people’s words—including a famous improvement to his own correction.
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