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- From: weasel@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Mike Rosenberg)
- Subject: Re: My all-time fave...
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- In article <acjbooks.727868573@citr.uq.oz.au> acjbooks@citr.uq.oz.au (ACJ Books (Chris)) writes:
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- >One of my favourites, by which I have learned with growing maturity to try
- >to live, but not always with perfect success:
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- > "Better to be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth
- > and confirm it"
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- > !
- >Chris.
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- I don't know if he was the original speaker but I've always heard that quote
- referenced to Abraham Lincoln.
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- --Weasel
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- * Mike Rosenberg | msr@casbah.acns.nwu.edu *
- * | jth@isp.nwu.edu *
- * "Weasel is not a nickname -- | weasel@merle.acns.nwu.edu *
- * it's a state of mind." | weasel@nwu.edu *
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- "Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid"
- Heinrich Heine
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