Boring and dubious quotes from Mark Twain, CS Lewis, Einstein, Chesterton et al, is not a new problem! A joke from the Inland Printer trade journal, 1910:
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They were boasting of the wonderful record of the new Linotype operator.
“How many ems in fifty-four hours?” inquired the machinist.
“Oh, it isn’t his speed that’s so wonderful,” they explained. “He has worked in newspaper offices for four years, and in that time has set only 938 Mark Twain anecdotes!”
Another operator attempted to prove that he had set only 876 in the same length of time, but they hooted him down and would have none of him.
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