[PLUG-TALK] How to be a good Democrat
Mark Morgan
lemming at quirkyqatz.com
Tue Oct 21 15:49:13 UTC 2003
Jeme A Brelin said:
>
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Mark wrote:
>> Jeme A Brelin wrote:
>> > Nobody knows who said it or when. It's just an old saying.
>> >
>> > "Give a man a fire and he will be warm for a night. Set a man on
>> fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life."
>>
>> Now that one is from Terry Pratchett
>
> Certainly not.
>
> My dad used to say that when I was a little kid.
>
> It's just one more clever thing that that hack Pratchett claims as his
> own without justification.
My mistake then. I don't know if Mr. Pratchett "claimed" it as his own.
He's just the source of where I heard it first.
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Mark
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