Re: Is it just me...?

Subject: Re: Is it just me...?
From: Stephen Victor <svictor -at- LGC -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 10:05:07 CDT

> > "No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's
> draft."
> >
> > - H.G. Wells

> I have the same problem, even when I'm reading fiction (I'll be
> reading and notice a glaring grammatical or typographical error and
> have this insane craving to write the editor).

> I also have a sign hanging in my office. This is a quote attributed
> to Mark Twain (and it is oh, so true!!):

> "There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work"

Hmm, these quotations are remarkably similar. Could one or both of us have
misattributed them?

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