Der Quote Investigator untersucht, woher das Zitat «Always Verify Your Quotations» stammt (via quoteinvestigator.com):
«Martin Routh was the President of Magdalen College, Oxford for more than six decades. He was a renowned classical scholar who died in 1854, and he has usually received credit for this saying.
The student who asked Routh for advice was John Burgon who later became a leader in the Anglican Church. Burgon presented a brief description of the interaction at beginning of his 1871 book titled “The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark”.»