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You can employ it in the same way to say, for example, that political discourse only seems to be less civil than it was any number of years ago. When, of cours
by ubernostrum 16y ago
You can employ it in the same way to say, for example, that political discourse only seems to be less civil than it was any number of years ago.
When, of course, it's not; it is in fact much more civil than it used to be :)
- billswift 16y agoLate 19th century legislator to and about another: "With a few more brains you could be a halfwit." "He never opens his mouth without subtracting from the sum of human intelligence." I wrote them down a couple of years ago, but forgot to note the source.
- balding_n_tired 16y agoThe second at least I have seen attributed to Thomas Reed, Speaker of the House in the late 1890s.