Re: Destroying "old" books in AMERICIA

curmudgeon wrote:
"Pogonip" <nobody3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Why would the UN Peace Keeping Forces be involved in the enforcement of
a U.S. law, Cur? This makes no sense at all.

Why, Because, the old maxim, "The road to hell is paved with good
intentions"
is Irish, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) to be exact.
But the corollary "Is policed by the UN Peace Keeping Forces" is English.
Leonard Rossiter (1926-1984) to be exact.



"I live in a world all of my own,
but that is alright, because
everyone knows me there"
*CUR*



Curious. I looked it up and found this:

Earlier forms of the proverb omit the first three words. Cf. [St. Francis de sales, Letter lxxiv.] le proverbe tiré de notre saint Bernard, ‘L'enfer est plein de bonnes volontés ou désirs’, the proverb taken from our St. Bernard, ‘Hell is full of good intentions or desires.’

Hell is full of good desires.
[1574 E. Hellowes tr. Guevara's Epistles 205]

It is a saying among Divines, that Hell is full of good Intentions, and Meanings.
[1654 R. Whitlock Observations on Manners of English 203]

It is a true saying,‘Hell is paved with good intentions’.
[1736 Wesley Journal 10 July (1910) I. i. 246]

I shall have nothing to hand in, except intentions,—what they say the road to the wrong place is paved with.
[1847 J. A. Froude Shadows of Clouds ix.]

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
[1855 H. G. Bohn Hand-Book of Proverbs 514]

No mention of Oscar Wilde, so perhaps the road doesn't start in Ireland.

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