[Ads-l] Adage: There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous

[Laurence Horn]

> On Jun 25, 2015, at 1:31 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 1:11 AM, ADSGarson O'Toole <
> adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> quoted:
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>> Great thanks to Philip Cherny whose inquiry led QI to formulate this
>> question and perform this exploration. Many thanks to Wilson Gray and
>> Laurence Horn for help in translating the 1767 citation.
>> 
> 
> QI is very welcome! That's very nice of them, given the triviality of my
> "contribution"!
> 
> 

Ditto.

LH
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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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