TRUE STORY OR NOT – IT WAS A GREAT REPLY

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Louis Brandeis graduated from the Harvard Law School at age 20 with the highest grade point average in that school’s history and, after other academic triumphs, was appointed Supreme Court justice. When Brandeis was studying law at Harvard, an anti-semitic professor by the name of Peters always displayed animosity towards him.

One day Prof. Peters was having lunch at the University dining room when Brandeis came along with his tray and sat next to him. Peters asked him the following question: “Mr Brandeis, if you were walking down the street and found a large suitcase; inside was a bag of wisdom and another bag with a lot of money, which one would you take?” Without hesitating, Brandeis responded, “The one with the money, of course.”

Peters, smiling sarcastically, said, “Just like a Jew. Unlike you I would have taken the wisdom.” Brandeis shrugged indifferently and responded, “Each one takes what he doesn’t have.”

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