[Ads-l] "old" proverb?

[George Thompson]

My father was struck by a line from Kipling (he said): "Down to Gehenna or
up to a throne, he travels the fastest who travels alone."

So this is a matter of "what has oft been thought, but ne'er so well
expressed" -- or at least, "ne'er attributed to Africans".

GAT

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 7:55 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Se. Cory Booker cites "the old African proverb,
>
> 'If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.'"
>
> Could be legit, but is it?
>
> JL
>
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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-- 
George A. Thompson
The Guy Who Still Looks Stuff Up in Books.
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998..

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