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A definitive answer arose in the wonderful book “Nice Guys Finish Seventh”: False Phrases, Spurious Sayings, and Familiar Misquotations. 

 

I found my reference: a marvelous little book by Ralph Keyes titled “Nice Guys Finish Seventh”.

 

An amusing popular book about misattributed quotations is “Nice Guys Finish Seventh” by Ralph Keyes, which is chock full of meticulous information on dozens of spurious quotations, many of which I used to quote confidently. 

 

I particularly like “Nice Guys Finish Seventh” by Ralph Keyes …

 

See Bartlett’s Quotations … or, better still, Ralph Keyes, “Nice Guys Finish Seventh.”

 

If you have Ralph Keyes’s book “Nice Guys Finish Seventh,” he has a great chapter on “The Rules of Misquotation that interpret the whole phenomenon of misquotations and misattributions very nicely.  This book is a must read for us quoteaholics.