Mark Twain? Charles Dudley Warner?
Dear Quote Investigator: There is a classic Mark Twain quotation about the weather that I have used for years.
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
However, recently I visited the Bartleby website and discovered that the reference work Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations says that the attribution to Twain may be incorrect. Someone named Charles Dudley Warner may have created the saying. Who is Charles Dudley Warner and who created the quote?
QI: Your confusion is understandable and for many years the question of authorship for this quote was unresolved. But, QI has uncovered some new evidence that points to the most likely answer.
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