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blind man quote.



I received the following note:

>Another opinion about who said it:

>From: http://www.weeks-g.dircon.co.uk/these_you_have_sought_on_a.htm

>In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. -- Desiderius
>Erasmus (1465-1536), Adagia, 1508

This makes more sense to me than Marx, since it's a very old cliché.

I'm leaving my correspondent's name out, since he works for the government.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine




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