(July 21, 2023 at 7:32 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(July 21, 2023 at 7:05 am)Carl Hickey Wrote: "There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which, reproach, hatred, and opposition, are names of happiness."
the famous lexicographer Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Say Anything You Like About Me, But Spell My Name Right
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/01/20/spell-name/
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Thank you for your response.
And yet there are people who steadfastly refuse to accept the fact that a hot dog IS a sandwich.
Boru
"Did it ever occur to you that I am a professional and have my reasons?"
"Midnight Run" (1988), 1:17 min. (of the clip)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcbXE8cFLak
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"Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade."
Samuel Johnson
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Project Gutenberg's A Grammar of the English Tongue, by Samuel Johnson
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15097/15...5097-h.htm
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Life Gives The Answers (Slumdog Millionaire (2008))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCFeNn5b2P0
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Twenty-One: Full Stemple and Van Doren Episode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVnGLks--oA
Quiz Show (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj-m3Ddmn0E
Bobby Darin "Mack The Knife"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=557lFG-qq5g
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To be smart is not enough. One needs a certain ("criminal") state of mind.
