7 exhibits
The Restoration Room
Some quotations are not wrong, only incomplete — and the missing part often reverses them. “Money is the root of all evil” is missing three words that change what is being condemned. Here the severed halves are put back.
-
Genuine longer version
“Power corrupts.”
The fuller version is genuine — and the two dropped words carry the whole argument.
-
Invented longer version
“Blood is thicker than water.”
The famous 'full version' appears to be a modern invention — the short proverb is the original.
-
Genuine but a later addition
“Curiosity killed the cat.”
The ending is real but late — added roughly three centuries after the proverb, and the original was not about curiosity at all.
-
Genuine longer version
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Genuine, and the missing clause is the part that explains what he meant.
-
Invented longer version
“Jack of all trades, master of none.”
The flattering ending is modern, and the popular attribution to Shakespeare is chronologically impossible.
-
Genuine longer version
“Money is the root of all evil.”
Three missing words, and the meaning inverts — the verse condemns the appetite, not the thing.
-
Genuine longer version
“God is dead.”
Genuine — but it is spoken by a distraught character, and it is a lament, not a boast.