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Posted by Bob on 09/13/05 16:44
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:31:33 +0000 (UTC), Robert Nichols
<SEE_SIGNATURE@localhost.localdomain.invalid> wrote:
>In article <43262009.14974656@news-server.houston.rr.com>,
>Bob <spam@uce.gov> wrote:
>:
>:"There is much to be said in favour of the Internet. By giving us the
>:opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of
>:the community."
>:--Oscar Wilde
>
>This must have been a different Oscar Wilde, not the famed poet and
>playwright who died in 1900, a full 70 years before the beginnings
>of the Internet.
It is a slight paraphrase. But the idea is the same. Here's the
original:
"There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us
the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the
ignorance of the community."
--Oscar Wilde
Interesting to note that nothing has changed in 105 years.
--
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"What is history but the story of how politicians have
squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?"
--Thomas Sowell
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