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Bonzo 2000 | 15:22 Fri 15th Oct 2004 | Phrases & Sayings
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Is this saying credited to a particular writer or character?
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Sherlock Holmes utters it twice in the Hound of the Baskervilles and I think that is the origin.
16:28 Fri 15th Oct 2004
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It's older than Conan Doyle I'm afraid.  Dickens uses it in the Old Curiosity Shop and the Countess of Winchelsea (17th century) uses a version in a poem in a way that suggests it was already a common phrase.

Sorry I can't tell you where it is from though - I've always assumed it was either Shakespeare or from Shakespeare's time but I'm sure someone on here will put me right!

There' s a longer version too - twas ever thus, and thus 'twill ever be.

21:18 Fri 15th Oct 2004
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Didnt Margaret Thatcher say it on her way out of Downing Street in 1990?
23:53 Sat 16th Oct 2004

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