Possibly spurious Samuel Adams quotation [RBBernstein]

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Oct 7 17:11:13 UTC 2013


On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Baker, John <JBAKER at stradley.com> wrote:

> pulverised his bones, strewed them in the field, and turned them in with
> the plough.


An early example of recycling?

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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.
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