Christmas is too commercial … used to be better in the old days.
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But the most important thing that we have bought about Christmas is the idea that it was better before. The earliest reference I found was 1616, when the playwright Ben Johnson wrote in one of his plays, he has one of the characters saying, “Oh, Christmas today is an awful, horrible thing. It used to be so much better.” We have been saying this for half a millennium.
Christmas is too commercial … used to be better in the old days.
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But the most important thing that we have bought about Christmas is the idea that it was better before. The earliest reference I found was 1616, when the playwright Ben Johnson wrote in one of his plays, he has one of the characters saying, “Oh, Christmas today is an awful, horrible thing. It used to be so much better.” We have been saying this for half a millennium.
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