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eppur_se_muova

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1. "He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it."

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Fri Jul 3, 2026, 07:49 PM

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I believe this needs to be enforced quite strictly -- no exceptions for ostentatiously "self-made" men who inherited a small fortune and turned it into a large fortune, with no help other than being born into a wealthy and influential family. It's quite appalling how such people insist they "did it all on their own" despite overwhelming evidence and arguments to the contrary.

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