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Blogs Liberty and Power An Arch Remark

Feb 20, 2008

An Arch Remark

by Liberty and Power

[cross-posted at Austro-Athenian Empire]

Guess who wrote this:

The quiet field of science has more amusement to my mind than politics and I had rather erect the largest arch on the world than be the greatest Emperor in it.

See the answer.