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To: Oztrich Boy
Nope. I Googled it. There were 127 results, but every last one of them references only this quote and one more, often fused together. There was almost no reference to the book's history, its significance, nothing,as one would expect at least some historian somewhere to have done if it were a real book. This is a classic symptom of a bogus quote. In addition, neither the Worldcat catalogue of libraries worldwide nor the Ohiolink catalogue of nearly every university library in Ohio even lists the book in their records, a near-impossibility if the book exists.

I have no idea of its authority, but this site pronounces it discredited.

21 posted on 10/14/2003 7:45:12 PM PDT by untenured
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To: untenured
You seem to be right

THE Encyclopedia knows not of it

Nor does Significant Scots

22 posted on 10/14/2003 8:30:44 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy ("Conscience is the little voice inside of you that says someone might be watching" HL Mencken)
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To: untenured
Here is an article that explains why the attribution should be discredited.
23 posted on 08/29/2004 2:44:46 AM PDT by richardmathews
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