Medieval peasant or modern American (nonfiction)
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Medieval peasant or modern American refers to an aphorism by Karl Jones (nonfiction), which reads in full:
Between the fleas and the cholera and the fact that surgery exists but antisepsis doesn't, I'm pretty sure medieval peasant is a poor second to modern American worker.
Jones used the phrase in a Facebook comment on May 12, 2019.
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- Aphorism (nonfiction) - A concise, terse, laconic, and/or memorable expression of a general truth or principle. They are often handed down by tradition from generation to generation. The concept is distinct from those of an adage, brocard, chiasmus, epigram, maxim (legal or philosophical), principle, proverb, and saying; some of these concepts are species of aphorism. From Greek ἀφορισμός: aphorismos, denoting "delimitation", "distinction", and "definition".
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