It has never felt like Kipling to
me !
It may be true of him but I don’t believe it is by him - unless, as Mary and I have suggested - it is from a letter to Fletcher about the projected History
of England ?
AGW. John R
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> On 21 Mar 2019, at 11:59, Yan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Dear John,
>
> I dare assume that significant value of celebrities' sayings are fakes.
> Nowadays one can easily look through all (or almost all) written matter using computer or Internet tools, and lack of reliable source seems to be a serious argument in "fake version" favour.
>
> As to "If history..." quote, it first appeared in Internet only in 2001 on sites like "1000 Brilliant Quotes", "History Quotes Guaranteed To Inspire You" etc.; not a single book, magazine or even newspaper reference. So, basically...
>
> Yan S.
>
>
> J> Dear Regular Readers of Kipling,
>
> J> Please can you help with the source of a well-known Kipling quote?:
>
> J> I have, of course, already consulted Google, the on line Journal and Google
> J> Scholar. In the latter, several such scholars have used careful substitutes
> J> for the actual publication, such as "Collected Works" or "Mentioned in.
> J> Coomber (1994).."!
>
> J> *"If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be
> J> forgotten." *
>
> J> Many thanks, in advance,
>
> J> John
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