
"It's written by Charles Grosvenor Osgood (1871-1964), as part of a 1917 preface to Boswell's 'Life of Johnson.'"
The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page http://www.samueljohnson.com/apocryph.html#2 Retrieved 2013-07-07
Misattributed
Homegrown Democrat : A Few Plain Thoughts From the Heart of America (2004), p. 78
"It's written by Charles Grosvenor Osgood (1871-1964), as part of a 1917 preface to Boswell's 'Life of Johnson.'"
The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page http://www.samueljohnson.com/apocryph.html#2 Retrieved 2013-07-07
Misattributed
“Honesty in principle was one thing. In someone’s face, it was another.”
Source: Just Listen
Principles and Priorities : Programme for Government (September 5, 2007)
The Deliverance from Error https://www.amazon.com/Al-Ghazalis-Path-Sufism-Deliverance-al-Munqidh/dp/1887752307
369
Popular version of the first sentence: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-front for the urge to rule it."
1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Source: Minority Report
376 - 379
Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I
Source: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (2004), Chapter 6, Reckoning, p. 153
“I never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt right.”
Variant: being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
Source: Women