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- From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella)
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- Subject: This should have been the first post here.
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 21:32:04 GMT
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- "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
- -- Winston Churchill, "My Early Life" (1930), ch.9
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- Before you start slavering in anticipation of the flames you will roast me
- with, don't bother: this quote has already been the subject of a flame-war
- (albeit a minor one) in rec.arts.books.
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- In case you didn't get it, it's meant to be self- deprecatory in intent, even
- by Churchill himself (actually, the quote continues into a plug for Bartlett's,
- but my "Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" left that bit out - wonder why? :-)
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- -- Rao Akella <rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu, rao%moose@umnacvx.bitnet>
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