Tracing Quotations
Finley Peter Dunne? Martin Dooley? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: One should be generous when conveying trust, but one should not be gullible or naïve. One must take precautions and defend oneself. An adage from the domain of card games presents this viewpoint: Trust everybody, but cut the cards. This notion has been attributed to …
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Mr. Dooley? Finley Peter Dunne? William Randolph Hearst? Willmott Lewis? Frederick W. Burnham? Clare Boothe Luce? Kara V. Jackson? Lawrence Weschler? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: Here are four phrases describing the duty of a newspaper or religious institution: Comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable Comfort the tormented, torment the comfortable Comforting the disturbed, disturbing the …
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