"The finest proof of our loyalty toward one……" — Alain de Botton
"The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else."
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- Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
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