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Re: What about the first?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 19 Feb 2003 19:36:47 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
> But what does that mean? Humility is irrelevant. Your obfuscation
> is a dodge.
When someone observed to Winston Churchill that his predecessor as prime
minister, Neville Chamberlain, was a humble man, Churchill is reported to
have replied, "And he has so much to be humble about."
Ditto for some current European leaders and opinion shapers, I think...
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 | | Paper Tigers [Re: What about the first?]
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| (...) I feared that quote may have been erroneous. I did some checking. It turns up only in one place on the web: (URL) someone observed to Winston Churchill that his predecessor as prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, was a humble man, Churchill is (...) (22 years ago, 20-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: What about the first?
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| (...) It turns out that if you leave a few words out of the search (URL) get a lot of sites with cites, most of which say that Churchill was talking about Clement Atlee, not Chamberlain, and most of which have a different wording. My memory of the (...) (20 years ago, 28-May-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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