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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
Mortimer Adler
Born: December 28, 1902
Died: June 28, 2001 (aged 98)
Bio: Mortimer Jerome Adler was an American philosopher, educator, and popular author. As a philosopher he worked within the Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions.
Known for:
- How to Read a Book (1940)
- A Syntopicon: An Index to The Great Ideas (1999)
- Six great ideas (1981)
- How to speak, how to listen (1983)
- Aristotle for Everybody (1978)
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