"much" vs. "a lot of"

[Neal Whitman]

Actually, I corrected my "never" to "sometimes", but that part didn't
make it into Joel's response.

Neal

On 2/16/2014 9:10 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
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> Google gives only 22 hits for "live well, laugh often, love a lot" as opposed to 182K hits for the "much" version. Never say never, but it's pretty close to it.
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> Benjamin Barrett
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> On Feb 16, 2014, at 5:56 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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>> At 2/15/2014 09:17 PM, Neal Whitman wrote:
>>> One more observation to add: Looking at the inspirational/motivational
>>> decorations in my son's guidance counselor's office, I realized that
>>> it's always "Live well, laugh often, love much," never "~ ~, love a lot."
>> Have you interviewed LDS's, polygynists, polyandrists, and rock stars?
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>> Joel
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