If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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As quoted in Listening and Speaking : A Guide to Effective Oral Communication (1954) by Ralph G. Nichols and Thomas R. Lewis, p. 74
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Also misattributed to Bertrand Russell, by Lawrence J. Peters, in The Peter Prescription : How To Make Things Go Right (1976), but he subsequently attributed to France in Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1977).
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Derived variant: If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
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W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer's Notebook (1949), entry for 1901Anatole France
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