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

[Jonathan Lighter]

Don't you mean, "Procrastination is the thief of time"?

Or perhaps "Abu is the Thief of Bagdad [sic]"?

Or even "Sabu *is* The Thief of Bagdad!"

JL

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:44 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Subject:      Re: "Comparison is the thief of joy"
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> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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> > Some sources credit the contemporary Christian writer Dwight Edwards,
> > which seems much more plausible.
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> Other sources ask,
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> "Who is Dwight Edwards and why is he also getting credit on some sites?"
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> Some say that he is "Christian writer Dwight Edwards," without bothering to
> note that he is contemporary.
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> IAC, "comparison is the death of contentment," as someone has said.
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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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