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If you want something you have never had (Spurious Quotation)
Quotation: "If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done."
Variations: "If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done."
Earliest known appearance in print: 20041
Earliest known appearance in print, attributed to Thomas Jefferson: 20122
Comments: This quotation has not been found in any of the writings of Thomas Jefferson.
- Anna Berkes, 2/4/13
- 1. Journal of the National Medical Association 96, nos. 1-6 (2004): 162.
- 2. Courtney Richards, I Am What You Say I Am (AuthorHouse, 2012), 137.
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