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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
Leo Strauss
Born: September 20, 1899
Died: October 18, 1973 (aged 74)
Bio: Leo Strauss was a German-American political philosopher and classicist who specialized in classical political philosophy. He was born in Germany to Jewish parents and later emigrated from Germany to the United States.
Known for:
- Natural right and history (1953)
- The City and Man (1964)
- Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952)
- On Tyranny (1963)
- The political philosophy of Hobbes (1959)
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