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The classics hold their place in higher learning because they show wasted time and money
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- Thorstein Veblen American economist and sociologist (1857 to 1929)
Indeed, there can be little doubt that it is their utility as evidence of wasted time and effort, and hence of the pecuniary strength necessary in order to afford this waste, that has secured to the classics their position of prerogative in the scheme of higher learning, and has led to their being esteemed the most honorific of all learning.
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↗The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)gutenberg.org
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