Another historical quip

[Jonathan Lighter]

I've long thought the final sentence to be one of the great American
utterances. The speaker was "an old man named Wells," met near
Milledgeville, Ga.

1865 Rev. Thomas M. Stevenson _History of the 78th Regiment O. V. V. I._
(Zanesville, O.: Dunne) 316: They might as well try to stop the Ogeeche
[sic] as you Yankees. The blasted rascals who burnt this 'ere bridge
thought they did a big thing; a natural born fool cut in two had more sense
in either end than any of them.

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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