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- Subject: Re: My all-time fave...
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 00:46:56 GMT
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- In article <acjbooks.727868573@citr.uq.oz.au> acjbooks@citr.uq.oz.au (ACJ Books (Chris)) writes:
- >From: acjbooks@citr.uq.oz.au (ACJ Books (Chris))
- >Subject: Re: My all-time fave...
- >Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 09:42:53 GMT
- >mispitze@dante.nmsu.edu (SPITZER) writes:
- >
- >>PELTON MATTHEW ALAN (pelton@ecf.toronto.edu) wrote:
- >>: In article <MICHAEL.93Jan15190525@marcel.bu.edu> michael@marcel.bu.edu (Michael Chaplin) writes:
- >>: >
- >>: > elparr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Ellen Louise Parr) writes:
- >>: >
- >>: > = "The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius
- >>: > = has its limits"
- >>: > = --Unknown
- >>: >
- >>: > = Ellen
- >>: >
- >>: >"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward."
- >>: >
- >>: >Chaplin.
- >>: >--
- >>:
- >>: "Sins can be forgiven, but stupid is forever."
- >>:
- >
- >One of my favourites, by which I have learned with growing maturity to try
- >to live, but not always with perfect success:
- >
- > "Better to be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth
- > and confirm it"
- >
- > !
- >Chris.
-
- What about this one:
-
- There is no sin except stupidity.
- - Oscar Wilde
-
- Cheers,
- Russ
-