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The short answer: no John Gray wrote “I would love you all the day, every night we would kiss and play, if with me you’d fondly stray, over the hills and far away”; the verse is John Gay’s, sung in The Beggar’s Opera in 1728 to a tune London already knew from George Farquhar’s The…
Tolkien wrote it, but not in the book most people name, and most of the internet quotes it wrong. The verified source, the full poem, and 14 more travel lines.
The ‘lose sight of the shore’ line is credited to Angela Elwell Hunt all over the internet. She was quoting André Gide’s 1925 novel The Counterfeiters. The verdict, the verbatim line, and how the mix-up happened.
George Bernard Shaw gets the credit for “two countries separated by a common language.” He never wrote it. The real origin trail, from Oscar Wilde to Reader’s Digest.
The famous “sail away from the safe harbor” quote is almost always credited to Mark Twain. He did not write it. Here is the real source, and the travel line Twain actually wrote.
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