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"I'm enthralled by this book and learning a ton, but it's dense and not something I'm capable of slogging through in a single sitting or even in multiple, longer sittings.
I'm considering skipping the rest of Chapter 12 ("The Empire and the People") for the time being. I might return to it later." — Dec 02, 2025 01:10PM
"I'm enthralled by this book and learning a ton, but it's dense and not something I'm capable of slogging through in a single sitting or even in multiple, longer sittings.
I'm considering skipping the rest of Chapter 12 ("The Empire and the People") for the time being. I might return to it later." — Dec 02, 2025 01:10PM
“a language” can only ever be a snapshot, a single slice of time in the history of a community of speakers.
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we
are. They are different. ”
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are. They are different. ”
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