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Subject: Re: Trivia: Fall guy
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 00:25:45 EDT


In a message dated 06/03/99 6:06:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:

<< "Never give a sucker an even break," movie comedian W. C. Fields once
said. >>

I had always heard that this quote was attributed to P. T. Barnum, however my
_QPB Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins_ states that there is no proof
to support this. "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break" was the title of a W.
C. Fields movie, however the phrase was not invented by him.

Regards,
Kathy Smit

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