Must needs

[Wilson Gray]

 Re:"Needs must when the devil drives."

Who? Barbara? What? I don't get it.

-Wilson

On Jan 16, 2008 6:53 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> 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".
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