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March 20, 2015
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My choice early in life
was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician.
I, for one, believe the piano player to be much more honorable
than most current politicians. -- Harry Truman
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Per Snopes, partly apocryphal:
The legend-cum-joke about a respected, successful man who notes in retrospect that — had he enjoyed more advantages early in his life — he might have ended up as a piano player in a brothel is an old one, one which Truman echoed when he observed (as related in the book Plain Speaking) that "My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference." However, the follow-up line, "I, for one, believe the piano player job to be much more honorable than current politicians," does not appear in that book and is possibly an apocryphal addition rather than Truman's own words. Read more at http://www.snopes.com/quotes/truman/truman.asp#MvL56uiUiqox26sx.99
1 comment:
Per Snopes, partly apocryphal:
The legend-cum-joke about a respected, successful man who notes in retrospect that — had he enjoyed more advantages early in his life — he might have ended up as a piano player in a brothel is an old one, one which Truman echoed when he observed (as related in the book Plain Speaking) that "My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference." However, the follow-up line, "I, for one, believe the piano player job to be much more honorable than current politicians," does not appear in that book and is possibly an apocryphal addition rather than Truman's own words.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/quotes/truman/truman.asp#MvL56uiUiqox26sx.99
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