On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 06:37:21PM -0800, Matthew Cline wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 January 2001 16:03, Dave Storrs wrote:
>
> > "I'm sorry for writing you such a long letter; I didn't have time
> > to write a shorter one."
> > -- Abraham Lincoln
>
> I thought that was a quote by Pascal?
Once one starts reading more quotations one will find that quotations
get misquoted, shortened, misattributed, rewritten, more than you
really wanted to believe. Some persons seem to be 'quotation
sponges', everything witty gets attributed to them. Such persons
include Mark Twain, Groucho Marx, Churchill, Oscar Wilde, et cetera.
> --
> Matthew Cline | Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose that
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | you were a member of Congress. But I repeat
> | myself. -- Mark Twain
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