Must needs

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:36 PM -0800 1/16/08, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>Must needs was used by Mahatma Gandhi.
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>One must needs be as humble as the dust. (Citation from
>http://www.writespirit.net/sri_chinmoy/books-by-sri-chinmoy/mahatma-gandhi-the-heart-of-life/mahatma-gandhi-by-sri-chinmoy)
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>I remember not being able to parse this in high school but finding that
>other people had not problem. BB
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and then there "needs must", as in "Needs must when the devil drives".

LH

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