BS: Name the Author

Subject: RE: BS: Name the Author
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 10:01 PM

Thomas Paine?

Subject: RE: BS: Name the Author
From: Jeri
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 07:48 PM

How about (and everyone probably knows this):

"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his
enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes
a precedent that will reach to himself".

Subject: RE: BS: Name the Author
From: kendall
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 07:41 PM

I've used that quote countless times and never knew where it came from. Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Name the Author
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 07:30 PM

Excellent guess!

Subject: RE: BS: Name the Author
From: John O'L
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 05:04 PM

Bill D?

Subject: RE: BS: Name the Author
From: Slag
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 04:08 PM

Another touch of genius! Of which the soul of is brevity! In short, I don't know!

Subject: RE: BS: Name the Author
From: freda underhill
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 04:06 PM

who said:

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.

?

Subject: RE: BS: Name the Author
From: Don Firth
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 03:44 PM

Valley of Fear? Yeah, I think that's it.

Well, I did catche the culprit. I just that I'm not sure which window he crawled in through. I don't know where my wife put our copy, and she's not here right now.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Name the Author
From: Alice
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 03:02 PM

was it Valley of Fear?

Subject: RE: BS: Name the Author
From: Slag
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 01:35 PM

Hint: Volume II, page 773

Subject: RE: BS: Name the Author
From: Slag
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 01:32 PM

I say Firth. The game's afoot and you have no desire to seek out the culprit?

Subject: RE: BS: Name the Author
From: Don Firth
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 01:27 PM

Yeah, Bagpuss has it. Arthur Conan Doyle. One of the Sherlock Holmes stories, but I'm not about to wade through my copy of "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" and try to find out which one.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Name the Author
From: Slag
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 01:23 PM

Hey, you got the Prize, Bagpuss! I hope you knew that all on your own because, like virtue, its it's own reward! Remember which story?

Subject: RE: BS: Name the Author
From: Helen
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 01:20 PM

Without Googling, I would suggest Mark Twain, because it sounds a bit Twainish to me. My next thought was Oscar Wilde, but I don't think it fits him as well as some others.

[I'm going to try to resist Googling and wait until the answer is revealed here.]

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Name the Author
From: Bagpuss
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 01:18 PM

Arthur Conan Doyle.

Do I get a prize?

Subject: BS: Name the Author
From: Slag
Date: 28 Dec 06 - 01:13 PM

Who said "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instanly recognizes genius..." Who was the author?