"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
— Misquotations

January 1, 1970

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Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, Thomas Jefferson, Ann Landers, et al. never said these words. The phrase is an alteration of one made by Jonathan Swift: Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it. (See .)