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by cafard 5212 days ago
Was the expression "brush fire" current in the late 1700s? In fact, the whole sentence looks a little questionable.
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dpcx 5212 days ago
Not really... http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=brush+fire&...

As well as http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_Adams#Misattributed

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