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I would be literally patrician in the sense that the senators in ancient Rome were called conscript fathers, paters, from which comes… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
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“collectivity, on the other hand, is the place of what the seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal calls “divertissement,” an untranslatable word which… — William H. Shannon Copy Share Image
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