A notoriously absent-minded professor was one day observed walking along the street with one foot continually in the gutter, the other on the pavement.
The only way to overcome it — the only way to lift our national discourse out of the gutter — is to heed Washington's words and take pains to bring truth to light.
" Yes, if you can tell me exactly--for I must know that first--how deep the gutter is in the little street opposite, that you pass through in going to school."
The sun might make you ruddier but racing down a " gutter" on a surface slick as " butter" even if you have to " crash" could help you make a " splash" .