This bon mot was first uttered in Greek antiquity (by a parvenu politician, naturally), spread in rhetorical manuals, popularized by Seneca
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It has been on the lips of undistinguished scribblers and clerks with big dreams ever since.
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Who gives a damn about piling on Petersen? if you get him to recant, this would still be mind-poison. It has been gnawing away at our folk for 500 years; focus on the root, not the branches
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I can't think of a cure for it, barring a few centuries of forced cousin marriage.
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