[Ads-l] fake Lincoln quote

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Jul 28 23:46:25 UTC 2017


On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 8:44 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> No, no. The correct quote is,
>
> "The enemy of my friend's enemy is neither the enemy of my friend nor the
> friend of my friend's enemy - but he may be either the friend or the enemy
> of my own enemy."
>
> JL
>
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
>
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> The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org
>

Hmm.. I see that, now that you've pointed it out.

BTW, thanks for the help in delaying the onset of old-timer's disease.

-- 
-Wilson
-----
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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