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Seems all well and good, except: > threaten the cowardly, encourage the lazy You would reap more fruit if you encouraged the cowardly and threatened the laz
by combatentropy 7y ago
Seems all well and good, except:
> threaten the cowardly, encourage the lazy
You would reap more fruit if you encouraged the cowardly and threatened the lazy.
- bryanrasmussen 7y agois this a joke I'm not understanding - I ask just because fruit is not normally something one reaps. At any rate the construction of the phrase attempts to pair the sin with a motivator suited to that sin - threaten is suited to cowardice because one should be afraid of threats. That said - I would have gone with prod the lazy.
- Confusion 7y agoI think it's just someone, possibly a non native speaker, mixing "reaping the benefits of" and "plucking the fruits of"