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2022-11-21 22:27:50 UTC - HELPFUL
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While often misattributed to Voltaire himself, most historians attribute this quote to an English author named Evelyn Beatrice Hall in 1906. Hall was writing about Voltaire, but not quoting him, as she clarified in a 1939 letter published in the journal Modern Language Notes. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/06/01/defend-say/
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