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Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Three Classes of Men
Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), "William Pitt and Lord Peterborough," Imaginary Conversations:
There are only three classes of men that we in general have no patience with,— superiors, inferiors, and equals.