dwyl/quotes

Duplication through quote misattribution: Lao Tzu or Richard Braunstein

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pscheid92 commented

Searching the quotes.json file, I detected a duplicate quote attributed to two different authors.
As discussed in issue #41, we should check the attribution and remove the duplicated entry.

{
    "author": "Lao Tzu",
    "text": "He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much."
}

{
    "author": "Richard Braunstein",
    "text": "He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much."
}
nelsonic commented

Yeah, I think this one is a bit easier to make a call on: give it to Lao Tzu
https://www.google.com/search?q=He+who+obtains+has+little.+He+who+scatters+has+much
The first two pages of Google results attribute the quote to him.
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pscheid92 commented

Agree! I'm going to open a PR removing the Richard Braunstein quote.

I found a painting using this quote as a title: Link

“He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.”–Lao-Tzu, 6th century B.C. Chinese moralist and mystic, on Generosity. From the series Great Ideas.

But I cannot find a single clue who Richard Braunstein is or was. I found a notebook on Amazon using the name and quote on the cover, but nothing more.

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