While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this? - Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson: "While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this?"

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Laid	Long	Myself	Nonsense
Often	Platos	Puerilities	Republic
Reputation	Such	Through	Unintelligible
Wading	While	Whimsies	Work
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