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> [“He was seeing a long line of men stretched through the centuries from Plato onward, whose heir and final product was an incompetent little professor with the appearance of a gigolo and the soul of a thug.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand-atlas-shrugged/he-was-seeing-a-long-line-of-men-stretched-through-the-centuries-from/)

Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged

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