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A Defense for the Intellectual Life

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The Grave of Your Best Gifts

Smith: I've learned that those people who are reading books, they're actually some of them much busier than me. So anyway, so he talks about, I want to get into this because he says there's enemies of knowledge and he should be aware of these enemies of knowledge. It's a sloth. And then another one is pride, because it darkens your intellect. Envy. These are a lot of the capital sins. But then the last one is irritation. He says it repels criticism and comes to grief on the major rock of air. Smith: How many times have you left a situation? I think everybody has done this. In the moment, the irritation

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