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Incidentally, that's my favourite quote from Blaise Pascal: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/

My favorite quote for 10 years was from my 1993 college math professor:

You will never go wrong attributing a pithy quote to Benjamin Franklin or Mark Twain.

And then the internet became popular.

I think your professor took that one from Franklin... or was it Mark Twain?

Franklin couldn't predict the future. It was Twain, saying you'd never go wrong attributing a quote to Franklin.

Respecting a timeline only matters in some universes, and in the Universe of Quotes, it certainly does not!

When I was in college I read:

At a party, want to have people think you're really smart?

If someone asks "Where's that [quote] from?" quickly respond "The Bible or Shakespeare."

In English, you'll be right 50% of the time.