Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 16:12:07 +0000

From: Lynne Murphy M_Lynne_Murphy[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]BAYLOR.EDU

Subject: quote source



if you squeeze your brain real hard, this might be a dialect question,

but here goes:



can someone tell me who said (shaw? twain?) the following:



however eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents

were poor but honest.



if you know where s/he said it, that'd be nice to know too. and if my

quotation is inaccurate, please let me know.



i couldn't believe that no one in my department (nor any of their

quotation books) could help me on this one--i've heard it so often!



thanks in advance,

lynne

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M. Lynne Murphy

Assistant Professor in Linguistics

Department of English

Baylor University

PO Box 97404

Waco, TX 76798