Nothing to see, here: Different strokes

[Charles C Doyle]

Wilson--

Here is the earliest that we have in the "modern provrbs" file:

Different strokes for different folks.  1945  _Philadelphia Tribune_ 19 May:  “Yes, I realize that 'times have changed' and that, as a jitterbug friend told me the other day, 'one has different strokes for different folks.'"

--Charlie

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1966 [quoting boxer Cassius Clay] "I got DIFFERENT STROKES FOR
DIFFERENT FOLKS.”—Great Bend Daily Tribune (Kansas), 11 November, page
6

1967 [Soul Brothers Top 20] Different Folks Like Different Strokes:
                                                      Soul singer Syl
Johnson has something when he says
                                                      there are
"DIFFERENT STROKES FOR DIFFERENT FOLKS."––JET Magazine. 9 November,
page 64

The title of the song quoted is simply, Different Strokes. The full
forrm occurs in the refrain.
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-Wilson

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