Moonshot/Mudshot; Proverbs

[Fred Shapiro]

On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>    "You don't want to know how laws or sausages are made."

This is usually attributed to Bismarck, but no one seems to have traced it
to a real source.  If anyone knows anything about its real origins
(Barry?), I'd love to hear from them.

Fred Shapiro


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