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[Jonathan Lighter]

 A perfect - maybe *the* perfect - ex. of a phenomenon I reported on
years ago: "fact" = 'notion or idea.'

JL

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> "The _fact_ that I had anything to do with this _is a lie_!"
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> Well, if there's anything that's a lie, it's a fact.
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> Youneverknow.
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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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