Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Style wars
Message-ID: <190@becker.UUCP>
Date: 30 Dec 88 18:04:59 GMT
References: <18621@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <83297@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <83297@sun.uucp> swilson@sun.UUCP (Scott Wilson) writes:
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| In article <18621@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> bks@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
| commercials.  (No, I didn't know where it came from, Bartlett's Book of
| Quotes comes in handy.)
| 
| Scott Wilson		arpa: swilson@sun.com
| Sun Microsystems	uucp: ...!sun!swilson
| Mt. View, CA
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	Let's get it straight once and for all please. The
	One True Quote is:


	"A foolish mind is the consistency of little hobgoblins."


	which is attributed to Gulliver.


Giggle,
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