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

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Tue Jan 6 01:44:40 UTC 2015


On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Some sources credit the contemporary Christian writer Dwight Edwards,
> which seems much more plausible.
>

Other sources ask,

"Who is Dwight Edwards and why is he also getting credit on some sites?"

Some say that he is "Christian writer Dwight Edwards," without bothering to
note that he is contemporary.

IAC, "comparison is the death of contentment," as someone has said.

-- 
-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.
-Mark Twain

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