Carolina QuotesPeople will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou Connected to the Carolinas
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This is a very close paraphrase of a quotation attributed to Carl Buehner in a book published many years earlier - “They may forget what you said — but they will never forget how you made them feel.” quoted in Richard Evans' Quote Book, 1971, Publisher's Press, ASIN: B000TV5WBW, although it is widely (mis)attributed to Angelou in her book Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes (2003) by Bob Kelly, p. 263
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- 1971
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- p. 263
misattributed
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“People will forget what you said. People will forget what yo…” Maya Angelou. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-6F8A18113C. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/6f8a18113c
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