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CamperBob
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Harvard 1869 entrance exam
If history repeats itself, then why not study newer, more relevant iterations?
32ftpersecond
on Dec 5, 2011
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The Classics are timeless and thus always relevant, that's why they're still read today. Can anyone really argue that reading Jimmy Carter over Cicero or Marcus Aurelius is preferable because of temporal relevancy factors?
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