Mark Twain Falsely Credited With Quote About Reading ‘Some obituaries with great pleasure’
The claim: American author Mark Twain once said or wrote, “I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” The quote, which appeared to have first circulated in this exact form and with attribution to Twain in 2011, likely originated as a misquotation and misattribution of a 1932 quote […]