where does the more you know come from
The More You Know The More You Know is a series of public service announcements (PSAs) broadcast on the NBC family of channels in the United States and other locations, featuring educational messages. These PSAs are broadcast regularly during NBC's programming in primetime, late night, and Saturday morning.
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford Molly Bawn contains Hungerford's most famous idiom:
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If I Had My Life to Live Over The song is now a recognized standard, recorded by many artists.