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"Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige ."
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"Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability."
— Edmund Burke
Philosophy1729–1797
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