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Only one thing to say about that: I miss when idiot bigots were more concerned with showing disdain for book-reading than pretending that reading makes them special. It's just so, so pathetic.
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That last one always gets me. Marcus Aurelius was nothing like these people on any level - at least not as a matter of record. Aquinas was an elitist fop and Machiavelli was a serial womanizer, although he did have some principles - so that at least makes *some* sense. But him?
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