The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
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