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And certainly not: "Happiness is an emotion not often spoken of at the magazine, much less experienced" (Brendan Gill).


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And certainly not, as in He rarely talks about his outside activities, much less his family. The earliest record of this idiom is in John Milton's Paradise Lost (1671): "The world thou hast not seen, much less her glory."


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