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20. Apocryphal, but attributed to Twain. One of my journalism profs used it in class.

Fri Jan 13, 2012, 07:39 PM

Jan 2012

He attributed it to his black maid.
This was back in the late 50s at the University of Alabama.
Of course he was hammering home that journalists needed to make damn sure they had the facts, and not just hearsay.

"Our old colored maid was a wise woman. One time she told me "It ain't what you KNOW that gets you in trouble, It's what you DO KNOW that ain't so."
Remember that. Go to the source and check your facts."

It does sound a lot like Twain.
Who knows?
But still good words to live by.

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