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To: processing please hold

Some techniques of discourse ARE more noble than others....

(I’ve been reading Ben Franklin’s papers...my head is woozy with the sound of 18th century English....)


16,221 posted on 04/30/2007 11:41:27 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
"True eloquence consists in saying all tht is proper, and nothing more." - Rochefoucauld
16,223 posted on 04/30/2007 11:45:48 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (<------(My choice for President in 2008 - Click on my screen name)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
"Speak the truth by all means; be bold and fearless in your rebuke of error, and in your keener rebuke of wrongdoing; but be human, and loving and gentle, and brotherly the while." - W.M. Punshon
16,226 posted on 04/30/2007 11:48:51 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (<------(My choice for President in 2008 - Click on my screen name)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
Some techniques of discourse ARE more noble than others...

They are.

(I’ve been reading Ben Franklin’s papers...my head is woozy with the sound of 18th century English....)

Great choice. Wasn't it Franklin on your post, '(not verbatim) we shall all hang together, or we shall all hang separately?

I love reading the patriotic quotes you're posting. Thank you for them.

16,230 posted on 04/30/2007 11:51:29 AM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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