Quote: If you want something very, very badly, let it go free (1972 edition question)

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:00 PM -0400 6/22/11, Garson O'Toole wrote:
>1) If you really love something set it free. If it comes back it's
>yours, if not it wasn't meant to be.
>2) If You Love Something Set. It Free If It Comes Back, It Was And
>Always Will Be Yours. If It Never Returns, It Was Never Yours To Begin
>With.
>3) If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're
>yours; if they don't they never were.
>4) If you love something, set it free- if it comes back to you, it was
>meant to be
>
>These are examples gathered yesterday from the internet of a family of
>sayings. The Yale Book of Quotations and the Quote Verifier trace this
>family to a book by a teacher named Jess Lair who collected sayings
>from students on index cards.

The black sheep of the family:
http://www.zazzle.com/set_it_free_shirt-235601941430118526

LH

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