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Theodore Dalrymple quote ✍️

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And secretly I fell prey to the one of the besetting sins of western intellectuals, which normally I abhor: I began to experience envy of suffering, that profoundly dishonest emotion which derives from the foolish notion that only the oppressed can achieve righteousness or - more importantly - write anything profound.
Theodore Dalrymple The Wilder Shores Of Marx: Journeys In A… intellectuals romanticism stupidity

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PAST 383 clues
PRIDE 208 clues
INTELLIGENCE 145 clues
ACCEPTANCE 119 clues
EMBRACE 116 clues
POETRY 111 clues
EXPERIENCE 89 clues
FUTURE 87 clues
KNOWLEDGE 69 clues
STUPIDITY 27 clues
INTELLECTUALS 4 clues
ROMANTICISM 4 clues

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Unscramble THEODORE8-letter words that start with T8-letter words that end in E8-letter words containing HE8-letter words containing RE8-letter words with T and H
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
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NEE
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