And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for dist…

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And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent. ✨ Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). The Republic
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