Date: Sat, 9 Sep 1995 14:59:01 -0700

From: Sylvia Swift madonna[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU

Subject: Re: contempt vs. content



i've heard only the contempt version in my WY RI OR CA life, and assumed

(before i read about the helsinki paper) that it was a joking version

along the lines of "abcess makes the heart grow fonder." out of

curiousity, i checked _bartlett's familiar quotations_, where most of the

stuff i used to think my mom made up turns out to be. there are no

content cites, four for contempt:

publius syrius, maxim 640

aesop, "the fox and the lion"

shakespeare, _the merry wives of windsor_, act i, scene i, line 258

cervantes, _don quixote_



sylvia swift

madonna[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]violet.berkeley.edu