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Don't be a snob.

Because of the work we've done, because of the study, because of the experience, is we know.

We know what's right. We know what's possible. We know how things should go.

The problem, as we've said before, is that it's very easy to forget that the stokes

believed only in self-discipline. In F Scott Fitzgerald's wonderful short story, The Four Fists,

which we wrote about recently for very different reasons, Fitzgerald has a scene where a particularly

distinguished young gentleman gets in an argument with a short tempered but otherwise decent

workman. In the end, the workman bristles at being judged and attacks the gentleman,

which serves as a well-deserved wake-up call for a guy who had long been convinced of his superiority

to everyone else. Eventually, this mistake about the workman influenced his entire

attitude, Fitzgerald writes, snobbishness is after all merely good breeding grown dictatorial.

So Samuel's code remained, but the necessity of imposing it upon others had faded out

in a certain gutter. We should take note that the stokes repeatedly spoke against taking on errors.

Zeno and Epictetus's best one-liners are about puncturing the pretensions of their students.

And Marcus Aurelius was beloved when historian writes, because his strictness was limited solely

to himself. It's great that you've done this work. It's great that you've learned so much.

It's great that you have a strong code and set of standards that doesn't give you the right

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