[Ads-l] Quote: The man who is good at making an excuse is seldom good at anything else

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Mark Mandel wrote:
> No, I take it back. "D.F." is in the source.
. . .
> And presumably
>
> Anecdotes of D.F.  ->  Anecdotes of B.F.
>
> Yes?

"Anecdotes of D. F." is specified in the text of "Liber Facetiarum". I
did not see any other matches within Google Books for the phrase
"Anecdotes of D. F."

"D. F." might refer to "Dr. Franklin", but I think that would be an
odd initialism. As you imply "B. F." makes more sense for "Benjamin
Franklin".

Also, thanks to Stephen for his remarks. I removed the typo and added
an acknowledgement.

Garson

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