It might be more accurate to say that his is the Mary Poppins philosophy of social and cultural instruction: a spoonful of sugar helps the agenda go down.

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You could do much better, it was cheaper, to get tea bags, 100 for 99 cents, and one spoonful, one cupful of sugar, and so you drink a lot of iced tea.

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