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Re: for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword (was Re: Those stupid liberal judges are at it aga
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Mon, 23 Sep 2002 15:52:29 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Erik Olson writes:
> have you realized this "Caesar" thing is a made-up quote that has been going
> around for many months? It's like the amusing but fake Nostradamus saying
> about the "village idiot."
Good luck! I did a Google search for that apocryphal Caesar quote and got
1180 hits! It's a well-established pious fraud, as firmly entrenched as the
Sarah Brady's "completely disarmed" false citation or Dan Quayle's "Latin
America" fictional quote.
Misquotes of this kind are legion and tenacious, with no easy way to
resolve them even when the unintended falsehood is revealed. And just for
the record, the Caesar "quote" isn't from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, either!
Dave!
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