Style wars
Alan Filipski
al at gtx.com
Wed Jan 4 08:05:46 AEST 1989
In article <83297 at sun.uucp> swilson at sun.UUCP (Scott Wilson) writes:
->In article <18621 at agate.BERKELEY.EDU> bks at ALFA.berkeley.edu (Brad Sherman) writes:
->> "Hobgoblins have the consistency of small minds."
->
->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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