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Terms and conditions apply. When he was in college and struggling to live up to the expectations of his illustrious family,

the writer Walker Percy wrote a letter to his uncle, William Alexander Percy, who had adopted him.

He probably expected to receive a lecture about his grades in reply or

be admonished for letting the family down or perhaps be sent money for a tutor. But the reply surprised

him because there wasn't any of that. Instead, his Uncle Will who had adopted Percy and his brothers

and introduced them to the writings of Marcus Aurelius and the Stoics told him they didn't care for one second about the grades. My whole theory about life, Will wrote back,

despite the fact that he himself had effortlessly graduated from Harvard, is that glory and

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