He said it in class.  He never finished the sentence, and I'm sure  
never planned to, knowing from long experience where the laughs would  
come.

On Jan 4, 2008, at 3:09 PM, Stuart LeBlanc wrote:

> Could I trouble you to provide the remainder of the quote
> (beyond the ellipsis)?  Or a citation.
>
>
> Robert Adams, my favorite professor at UCLA (he was editor of the 17th
> century portion of the Norton Anthology of English Literature)  
> noted that
> Puritans often had very large families with eight or ten children.   
> He said
> "You can be the biggest libertine in the world and not have that  
> many kids.
> But godly devotion to duty..."


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