Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes … - Mary McGrory

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But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

Mary McGrory

Anyone who has undergone home repair lately knows that your everyday artisan uses language so loosely and makes false promises so glibly as to make your politicians, even the presidential candidate, seem like a model of accuracy and rectitude. 'Be there Wednesday at nine,' the workman will tell you. It is a lie. He is humoring you. He says it to silence you, the way you tell a child you will take it to Disneyland if it will stop crying.

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