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February 12, 2023
Paul Fussell’s Class
Paul Fussell’s 1983 book “Class: A Guide through the American Status System.” No finer, funnier or painfully accurate book on the subject. Fussell was a Penn professor, WWII combat veteran and WASP’s WASP. Read it at your peril. It might bum you out.
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Voltaire, God and Human Beings, 1769
"In general men are stupid, vengeful, ungrateful, jealous, greedy for other people's goods, abusive of their superiority when strong, and deceitful when weak."
--First sentence, Chapter 1, Our Crimes and Stupidities
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