Quotation record · reviewed 2026-08-09
Circulates under Sigmund Freud
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The line is widely attached to Freud, but the cited historical review describes it as probably apocryphal. No source in Freud's writings is supplied for this exact sentence.
Earliest traceable appearance in this record: No secure Freud source established in the cited evidence; later twentieth-century circulation is documented.
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