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- From: roger@quantime.co.uk (Roger Phillips)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: Re: Slick Willie
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.015808.5831@quantime.co.uk>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 01:58:08 GMT
- References: <BzM8pt.Brz@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Dec21.204854.3444@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec21.204854.3444@samba.oit.unc.edu>,
- Chuck.Lavazzi@launchpad.unc.edu (Chuck Lavazzi) writes:
- > does anyone remember the exact quote and source for
- > the line about patriotism being the last refuge of the scoundrel?
-
- "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
- -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784),
- Boswell's _Life of Johnson_, vol. 2, p. 344 (6 Apr 1775)
- --
- Roger Phillips roger@quantime.co.uk
- "*Johnsonese* Johnsonian style, idiom, diction, or an imitation of it -
- ponderous English, full of antitheses, balanced triads, and words of
- classical origin" -- Chambers English Dictionary (1988)
-