famous quote syntactically mangled, nobody notices

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> "It is well that war is so terrible, that we should grow too fond of it."
>
> I find this construction incredible, particularly since, if anything, it
> seems to say that we *should* grow too fond of it. Â Or is it just me?

Nope.

"It is well that war is so terrible, _lest_ we should grow too fond of it."

At the very least!

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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