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"One must be born to any superior world — to make it plainer, one must be bred for it. One has a right to philosophy only by virtue of one's breeding; one's ancestors, one's "blood," decides this, too. Many generations must have worked on the origin of a philosopher; each one of his virtues must have been separately earned, cared for, passed on, and embodied."
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