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Nil by mouth

By Clinton on February 18, 2009 | Filed in Essays | One comment so far

Dalrymple on Simone Weil: “an excess of humilitysoon enough becomes its opposite, spiritual pride”.

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Jalen June 2, 2011 at 4:16 am

Thank God! Someone with brains sapeks!

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