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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Jacques Barzun
Born: November 30, 1907
Died: October 25, 2012 (aged 104)
Bio: Jacques Martin Barzun was a French-born American historian. Focusing on ideas and culture, he wrote about a wide range of subjects, including baseball and classical music, and is best known as a philosopher of education.
Known for:
- The House of Intellect (1959)
- Simple & direct (1969)
- Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941)
- The modern researcher (1957)
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