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SicSemperTyrannis2 on scored.co
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> It is exactly the ability to use awareness, acuity, and insight
If a book is only useful to convey a key excerpt, it's author lacked these things and you might as well just have a quote of said key excerpt. Yes it might develop excerpt(s) better than just the quote, but this is a description of a book that isn't very good. It denigrates books.
If a book is only useful to convey a key excerpt, it's author lacked these things and you might as well just have a quote of said key excerpt. Yes it might develop excerpt(s) better than just the quote, but this is a description of a book that isn't very good. It denigrates books.