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The practice of fact-checking everything from urban myths to former U.S. President Donald Trump’s tweets has become de rigueur. Then there are those who expose and correct quotations from some of literature’s finest writers. So when the U.K.’s Westminster Collection announced it was releasing some 50-pence coins commemorating Alice in Wonderland, the editor of the London-based Lewis Carroll Review was on high alert. “Misattributed Alice quotes are absolutely everywhere,” Franziska Kohlt told The Guardian. She confirmed two coins were incorrect; the White Rabbit did not say “The hurrier I go, the behinder I get” and the Mad Hatter never uttered “I’m under no obligation to make sense to you.” On this side of the Atlantic, an American with the pen name Garson O’Toole runs the Quote Investigator website. He told NPR radio that Mark Twain is one of the most misquoted authors he sees, and even corrected a quote attributed to Franz Kafka written by author Anne Rice in an introduction to a collection of Kafka stories. “Many of these quotations are cultural landmarks,” O’Toole explained. “It's a lot of fun to uncover these hidden histories, and I'm also very glad when I get to give credit to the person who actually said it." So next time you Google a quote, you might want to ensure you’re not putting words into famous author’s mouths or books.