[Ads-l] "Comparison is the thief of joy"

[Benjamin Torbert]

I've heard Karin Berquist quoting it at Over the Rhine concerts since at
least 2003.
On Jan 5, 2015 3:23 PM, "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

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> More succinctly, "Comparisons are odorous" (--Dogberry)
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> LH
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> On Jan 5, 2015, at 3:52 PM, Baker, John wrote:
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> > Some sources credit the contemporary Christian writer Dwight Edwards, =
> which seems much more plausible.  I don't immediately see any examples =
> that are more than five years old, so Roosevelt and Twain seem unlikely.
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> > Question for the ante-dating ninjas:
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> > A student has asked me who said this.  He wants to pin it on Theodore
> > Roosevelt, but I've heard it attributed to (of course) Mark Twain.
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