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Arnold Bennett
Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep saying it long enough it will be true.
— Arnold Bennett, 1918

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  • Crystal, David; Hillary Crystal (2000). Words on Words: Quotations about Language and Languages. University of Chicago Press, Page 275. ISBN 0226122018.