Quote: Calvin Coolidge dead: How can they tell? (Wilson Mizner and Dorothy Parker)

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Wed Feb 23 03:41:11 UTC 2011


On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 4:50 PM, _Garson_ O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> the quote attributed to _Wilson_ Mizner

So, you *had* to point that it may be the case that the quip is
_misattributed_ to _Wilson_ Mizner? That saddens me, _Garson_. I'd
hoped that we -sons would be presenting a united front in cases of
this sort. Oh, well. :-(

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-_Wilson_ Gray
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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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