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- From: "James F. Tims" <p00168@psilink.com>
- Subject: Re: Homeopathic remedies
- In-Reply-To: <1992Dec28.220247.19534@rosevax.rosemount.com>
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 23:34:26 GMT
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- >DATE: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 22:02:47 GMT
- >FROM: Grant Edwards <grante@aquarius.rosemount.com>
- >
- >wsadjw@rw6.urc.tue.nl (Jan Willem Nienhuys) writes:
- >:
- >: It is even not much more irrational than astrology.
- >:
- >
- >Excellent!
- >
- >In english that is called being "damned with feigned praise."
- >
- >--
- >Grant Edwards |Yow! I want a WESSON OIL
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- "When needs he must, yet faintly then he praises;
- So marreth what he makes, and praising most, dispraises."
- --Phineas Fletcher, _The Purple Island_ [1633], canto 7.
- "Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
- And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer;"
- --Alexander Pope, _Prologue to Imitations of Horace_, l. 193
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- /666; ', jim tims
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