Quote: this is deja vu all over again (antedating attrib Yogi Berra 1984 July 20)

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Garson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote, quoting:

> "As Yogi Berra would say, ..."

Note that _would say_ is not the equivalent of _says, said, has said_
et sim. I.e. it's not an attribution.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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