"Si 50 millions de personnes disent une bêtise, c'est quand même une bêtise."
— Anatole France

January 1, 1970

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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. — As quoted in Listening and Speaking : A Guide to Effective Oral Communication (1954) by Ralph G. Nichols and Thomas R. Lewis, p. 74 — Also misattributed to Bertrand Russell, by Laurence J. Peter, in The Peter Prescription : How To Make Things Go Right (1976), but he subsequently attributed to France in Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977). — Derived variant: If forty million people say a foolish thing it does no