[Ads-l] without breaking eggs

[Jonathan Lighter]

1796 _City Gazette and Daily Advertiser_ (Charleston, S.C.) (July 19) 3
[Newspapers.com] : From an English Magazine for April, 1796...They said to
[French General Charette], you have made us lose a great many men. "Ah! one
cannot make pancakes without breaking eggs!"

JL

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

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