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A picture says more than a 1000 words

Posted by Gary Martin April 05, 2008 at 16:35:In reply to A picture says more than a 1000 words posted by Victoria S Dennis on April 04, 2008 at 20:57:

Who used the sentence 'a picture says more than a 1000 words'? I've got mixed results. Some say it is used by Minard to describe the army-crusade against Russia by Napoléon. Others suggest it is older and first used by Confucius. If it is used by Minard, how exactly was it stated.


Well, this is what Wikipedia thinks, for what it's worth:
en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/A_picture_is_wort
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Wikipedia's author gives Frederick Barnard credit for introducing the phrase - which isn't quite right. See:

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