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Sunday, October 30, 2005
Forty-Two
Kierkegaard, Journals, January 17, 1837 (tr. Alexander Dru):
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys; they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked out the sum for themselves.