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Re: quotation addition

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Subject: Re: quotation addition
From: Scott Fisher <sefisher@cisco.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 11:12:49 -0700
> Roger Beasley wrote
> 
> I believe it was John Cleese (or one of the Monty Python group) who said
> of America and England, "Two great countries separated by a common
> language".

While I can well imagine that Cleese said that at some time, he was
quoting George Bernard Shaw when he did so...  Shaw is almost as much a
bore as Shakespeare: their plays are filled with things you've heard
people saying all your life. :-)

--Scott

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