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From: wald-david@CS.YALE.EDU (david wald)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Style wars
Message-ID: <46852@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 89 21:12:43 GMT
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What's a little more net volume?

In article <190@becker.UUCP> bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) writes:
>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."
>|
>| I believe the quote you're looking for is:
>|
>|      "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
>>            -- Emerson's Self-Reliance
>
>  "A foolish mind is the consistency of little hobgoblins."
>         -- Gulliver

(quotes reformatted)

"A consistent hobgoblin minds little fools."
    -- A foolish hobgoblin with a consistent little mind

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David Wald                                              wald-david@yale.UUCP
waldave@yalevm.bitnet                                 wald-david@cs.yale.edu
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