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- The essence of government is concern for the widest possible public interest; the essence of the humanities, it seems to me, is private study, thought,…
- …he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the…
- The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.
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