Quote Originally Posted by Rdenney View Post
I can explain the difference between broad statements and generalizations...
I believe I can help with the latter by way of a few examples:

  • "It's a good thing war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it" - Robert E. Lee
  • "Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved." - Mark Antony
  • ​"Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good." Bernard Law Montgomery

With regard to the former I don't feel comfortable using such archaic verbiage and frankly am surprise the most nuanced and well-round poster I've come across on these forums would use language better left to Humphrey Bogart and Groucho Marx.

Liam "who not only is dubious as to the humor in this post, but also fears he may have crossed the line...nevertheless thinks he could like Dizzy Gillespie and knows he likes some of Benny Goodman's Live at Carnegie Hall Concert" Barrett