John Rawls book A Theory of Justice
Source: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter IX, Section 83, p. 554
“Where Nature’s end of language is declin’d,
And men talk only to conceal the mind.”
Satire II, l. 207.
Love of Fame (1725-1728)
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