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[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Eloquence is no substitute for dubious reasoning."

What we have here is a failure to communicate. Clearly, what the
author intended to say is that

"Dubious reasoning is no substitute for eloquence."

That is to say, eloquence is superior to dubious reasoning.

WTF? It's "still" nothing but meaningless blather! Must be an example
of that "sound and fury signifying nothing" of which the Bible so
eloquently speaks.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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