[Ads-l] Appeal for Notable Quotations of 2019

[George Thompson]

Some guy, I forget who, referred to his "great and unmatched wisdom" --
notable because he would have better referred to his great and unmatched
ignorance and folly.

GAT

On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 8:03 PM W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> “You called me 'Fredo.' You know my name is not f***ing Fredo.”
> Chris Cuomo, CNN talk show host
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-- 
George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851

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