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Intriguing, Jazzo...I perused a half-dozen websites on the matter, and it is, indeed, an ongoing mystery due to a lack of solid evidence in any direction. Here's the most comprehensive discussion on the discrepancy I could find. It seems that "Success" came to be generally attributed to Emerson, but there's a similar Robert Louis Stevenson piece, and then there's a an unknown poet, Bessie Anderson Stanley, whose great-grandaughter claims it was hers. Stanley has received more attribution for the work than Stevenson, it seems. And more extant evidence supports the theory of her authorship. http://darriendesign.com/serendipity/whodunit.htm
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I got this in an e-mail today. Thought of you guys.
SUCCESS:
At age 4 success is . . . . not wetting your pants.
At age 12 success is . . . having friends.
At age 16 success is . . . having a drivers license.
At age 20 success is . . . having sex.
At age 35 success is . . . having money.
At age 50 success is . . . having money.
At age 60 success is . . . having sex.
At age 70 success is . . . having a drivers license.
At age 75 success is . . . having friends.
At age 80 success is . . . not wetting your pants.
There ya go.
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why spoons?
In those days, a host spread out the best his humble home could provide for festive occasions in remote regions seldom graced with spectacle. The best cutlery and plates and glasses and bowls. Oftimes the spoons were heavy with silver, and they were easier and safer to slip into a threadbare pocket than a knife.
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May I add an epigram attributed to Winston Churchill? "courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which quarantees all others."
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"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out aganist injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." Don't know who said this...re: South Africa, 1966.
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If anyone is interested the above was spoken by RFK (I was reading his bio last night while cunctating) when he addressed a crowd on The Day of Affirmation in South Africa. His speech was met with that quiet that is meant for reverance, then of course, with a roar of applause. This was, as I remember fondly, (and sadly mourn the loss of RFK) a period of time where we began to begin to understand and celebrate our diversity as human beings. That he had the epididy.... to get up there and speak about this was amazing. Apparently this was a time in South Africa that was particularly oppressive...
Bill?.....
Ha cha cha...3 threads
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Dear mlc: I am a bit ambivalent about the Kennedys. Not because I read somewhere that etymologically, the name originally meant "ugly head". I admire their having chosen to be public servants instead of mere jetsetters. But all three were flawed enough to miss being truly admirable. It is hard to tell how much they owed their speech writers.
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We all owe a huge debt of gratitude somewhere to someone, we all are flawed, sigh. . .
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