Re: I'm on the road agaiin.

On Wed, 21 May 2008 23:57:33 +0100, Patrick Hardlentil wrote:

And %steve%@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Steve Firth) was like:

JF <jf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think it was Sam Clemens who said that bad habits were an essential
requisite for a long life.

No it was Mark Twain.

No, what he actually said was that, while the merely lazy will always
attribute their tiresome half-remembered epigrams to James Thurber,
the truly bone-idle invariably chalk them up to Samuel Longhorn.

Or was that H. L. Mencken? I certainly CBA to look it up.

It was definitely Churchill.

Or Wilde.

One or the other.

Or possibly Cicero.

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