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According to J.L. Bell at the URL below, the quote does not appear in any published writings of Samuel Adams, and the term “brush fires” earliest usage in the OED is 1850. (Samuel Adams died in 1803.) http://boston1775.blogspot.com/2009/05/samuel-adams-and-brush-fires-in-peoples.html Alex O. Boulton --
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