“Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.”
Leo Strauss (1899–1973) Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservativism
“What is liberal education,” p. 6
Liberalism Ancient and Modern (1968)
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Irish novelist and poet 1882–1941
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