"Once a Dodger, Always a Dodger" (1934)

[Laurence Horn]

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I wonder if there are earlier cites for "Once a(n) X, always a(n) X".
When I was a young'un, I remember being taught on my professor's knee
"Once a phoneme, always a phoneme".  That was after 1934, though.

Larry