Re: quote sources

[Karen Weber <karenwe@pobox.com>]

>At 11:21 AM 7/4/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>Hi everybody!
>>The famous quote that begins "to laugh often and much" and ends "this is to
>>have succeeded" (I hope you know what I mean) is often attributed to Ralph
>>Waldo Emerson, but I have heard that this is inauthentic (ie, the quote
>>cannot be located in any of his copious writings, journals, letters, etc).
>>Anyone know if it is authentic or if not, where it really came from?  Just
>>curious...
>
>How convenient you asked this question!  I was about to write about this 
>infamous one.
>
>My page at http://www.wisdomquotes.com/success.html has a text of the 
>quote as it usually is used, plus a pointer to one source with a possible 
>explanation about the actual origin.
>
>An online history acquaintance has recently written with more of the story 
>-- I hope to get that online later this month, at that same address.
>
>Basically, it is NOT Emerson, it is a much-revised version of a quote from 
>the turn-of-the-century from a woman named Bessie Stanley.  (That 
>allegation is already well-documented elsewhere online -- you'll find the 
>link at the above web page.)
It is attributed to Emerson by:  The Book of Positive Quotations by John 
Cook and
The Forbes Book of Business Quotations. I'd be interested in your source 
of  information about Bessie Stanley. I tried loading the web page you 
referred to, but it
forwarded me to http://www.geocities.com/~wisdom/success.html and 
Yahoo!Geocities says "Whoops! We can't find your page!"
Karen
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