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Re: White Elephant
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Fri, 18 Aug 2000 21:14:49 -0600
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This sounds to me like another of the endless apocryphal lines that get
attributed to Mark Twain.  In this case, perhaps because he wrote "The
Stolen White Elephant."   I have heard the same challenge ("don't think of
so and so") attributed to Tolstoy.

Mark Coburn
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