mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> Kevin  Gowen <kgowen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Feb 29, 11:09 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Kevin Gowen wrote:
>>>> On Feb 28, 10:49 pm, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
>>>>> CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>>> One of the great tragedies of our time is the large group who mistake a
>>>>>> degree for education and a having a diploma from a school of a
>>>>>> particular name for intelligence.
>>>>> L Frank Baum had a good line on the phenomenon.
>>>> Better than Winston Churchill's?
>>> Just about any comment by L Frank Baum is better than one from someone
>>> more famous.  But, his work is more classic American and must be viewed
>>> within the age in which he was writing.  Knowing / understanding the
>>> Populist and Progressive Movements, and Free Silver, are a big plus.
> 
>> This is the Churchill line I had in mind:
>> "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of
>> quotations." - Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930.
> 
> Fascinating. What did he say about reading the work from which the 
> quotation was derived, or did you not make it that far in your book
> of Churchill quotes?

His blue crayon was too small to hold and Nanny kept washing his fingers 
because they were getting smeared by the other colors.  Then the red one 
broke.  He had to stop working on the book at that point and never got 
back to finish it.

-- 
CL