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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No. Better angels is correct. A fairly common expression.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It's a reference to Abraham Lincoln's first inaugural address:

"I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."