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Whenever I remark positively to…

Whenever I remark positively to something out of a sense of obligation, I lower the opacity of the text before hitting send.

Not a lot of people know this, but that’s actually where the phrase, "damning with faint praise," came from.

3.2k likes · October 3, 2024 at 7:19 PM UTC

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