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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
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  3. Message-ID: <LITERARY%93012718064355@UCF1VM.CC.UCF.EDU>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.literary
  5. Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:01:30 EST
  6. Sender:       Discussions about Literature <LITERARY@UCF1VM.BITNET>
  7. From:         Tim Johnson <ST402711@BROWNVM.BITNET>
  8. Subject:      Re: Word Search
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  11. >   The idiot who praises with enthusiastic tone
  12. >   Every century but this, every country but his own...
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  14.   And, true enough, it was for a great while the wont of our general
  15.   dunderheadedness to speak well of dead writers and decry all living
  16.   authors, with the reassuring consciousness that thus no possible
  17.   benefit could be incurred by anybody.
  18.                                           James Branch Cabell
  19.                                              _Beyond Life_
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