How to be one up - how to make the other man feel that something has gone wrong, however slightly. - Stephen Potter

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How to be one up - how to make the other man feel that something has gone wrong, however slightly.

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Stephen Potter (1 February 1900 – 2 December 1969) was an English scholar, critic, broadcaster and humorist. He is best-known for coining the words gamesmanship and one-upmanship, and explaining the concepts behind them.

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Alternative Names: Stephen Meredith Potter
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Talk of the "imperial decay" of your invalid port. "Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty withal, as it hovers between oblivion and the divine Untergang of infinite recession."
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