[Dragaera] random thoughts on recent (or not) Texts
Philip Hart
philiph at slac.stanford.edu
Mon Nov 7 12:26:18 PST 2011
On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, Kenneth Gorelick wrote:
> A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are built for.
> John A. Shedd, Salt from My Attic, 1928
>>> A ship is safe in a harbor, but that's not what a ship is for.
Was thinking I'd prefer the hybrid:
"A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for"
but now I'm voting for the original, fourteener or no fourteener.
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