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Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for the better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities, and a disgust for cheapjacks. We ought to smell, as it were, the difference of quality in men and their proposals when we enter the world of affairs about us.
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First encountered this "it should help you to know a good man when you see him" in Barzun a long time ago and throughout the petty sniping between the BA and BS factions over the value of the humanities I've kept thinking of it.
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