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[Wilson Gray]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Evidently the idea of merely "promising" or "solemnly promising" is now so
> laughable as to require a new usage.
>

Sad, but true.

-- 
-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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