"love it or leave it"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Aug 19 20:27:13 UTC 2011


On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm only showing that the phrase existed long before VN, FWIW, IYKWIM. YBQ
> (that's four in a row) recommends a look at earlier but far less similar
> words from Dorothy Parker & Gus Kahn.
>

Uh, well, yes. I understood that. But, you know, like, sometimes, I
get what, IIRC, The Woman's Home Companion called an

_IMP-pulse_.

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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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