[talk.bizarre] Style wars

al@gtx.com (Alan Filipski) (01/04/89)

In article <83297@sun.uucp> swilson@sun.UUCP (Scott Wilson) writes:
->In article <18621@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> bks@ALFA.berkeley.edu (Brad Sherman) writes:
->>      "Hobgoblins have the consistency of small minds."
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->I believe the quote you're looking for is:
->
->	"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
->
->Attributed to Emerson's Self-Reliance and recently featured in Reebok

Are you sure? I could swear it was something like 

   "awful itch consists in sieze daub gobble and afflict dumb hinds"

I think it's an anti-hunting slogan.

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