When someone volunteers opinion on what other people should be doing, we mock it and call it “unsollicited advice”. But when it comes in written form, we call it “public policy”.

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A friend who care about these things was bemoaning that a certain prize went to someone else. This is what Cato would have said: I feels much robust to deserve an honor and not have it than have an honor and not deserve it.

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Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.

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