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[Jonathan Lighter]

Early:

1889 _New Era_ (Shelby, N.C.) (March 1) 3: Get that fool notion out of your
gourds that new things are not better than old, dusty, dried up, moth eaten
ones.

JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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