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Soule, who also edited the Courier in nearby Charleston, Illinois, served as editor of The Wabash Express for less than a year. Hayes from to He died in Terre Haute in It all came about this way: John L.

Thompson had just finished advising Soule to go west and grow up with the country and was praising his talents as a writer. But in a few weeks the exchanges began coming into the Express office with the epigram reprinted and accredited to Greeley almost universally.

So wide a circulation did it obtain that at last the New York Tribune came out editorially, reprinted the Express article, and said in a foot note:. What would Dick Thompson — no literary man — have to get J. Soule a graduate of Phillips Exeter and Bowdoin College and one of the best writers in Terre Haute to get over his modesty? The story also makes Thompson out to be a patriarch giving advice to the young.

In fact, he was only six years older than Soule. Soule, from Maine, had already come farther than Thompson, from Virginia. And he kept on going. Soule got mentioned in East Coast papers at least once: the Cambridge, Massachusetts Chronicle lauded his wit in their September 30, issue. Iowa Congressman Josiah B. But Grinnell himself debunked claims that he got that advice from Greeley in a letter. Rhumboogie - Single Version Rhumboogie From 'Argentine Nights' Say 'Si Si' Jealous Go West Young Man Modify Don't Be That Way Any Bonds Today?

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boys The Telephone Song Nobody's Darling But Mine Bei Mir Bist Du Scho Homework Don't Bring Lulu Rhumboogie Re-Recorded Quicksilver I've Got No Strings Well, Alright! Tonight's the Night The Merry Christmas Polka Remastered Crazy Arms Digitally Remastered Vict'ry Polka Daddy Remastered Underneath the Arches Remastered Pennsylvania Polka Remastered The Butchers Boy The Oxford English Dictionary gives an uncharacteristically vague citation to Soule.

I read through Hints Toward Reform, as well as searching an online text of the book, and found that the quotation does not appear there. Thomas Fuller, a research editor for The Yale Book of Quotations, read the issues of the Terre Haute Express at the Library of Congress and found that these words did not appear there, either.

The quote runs in The Yale Book of Quotations with a word explanation of its attribution and misattribution over the years.

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