Date:  Sat, 2 Aug 1997 15:24:13 -0400
From:  Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALE.EDU>
Subject: Re: dumb question, I'm really sorry

On Sat, 2 Aug 1997, jarthurs wrote:

>   |Duane Campbell wrote: "Who said, 'Less is more'?"
>
>   |Alan Baragona replied: "Believe it or not, my hardback Bartlett's
> attributes
>   |it to Robert Browning! ['Andrea del Sarto,' l. 78, with a cross reference

>  I do not understand what the Browning quote has to do with the Campbell
>  question: it may express, by implication, a notion akin to that of "Less is
>  more" but it does not correspond to it textually, obviously. So, what does it
>  matter that Browning said what he said?

What is "obvious" is not always true. Browning did say "Less is more"
textually.


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