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From: University Wire
Date: 20071119
Author:Brian Kernighan

Brian Kernighan
University Wire
11-19-2007
(The Daily Princetonian) (U-WIRE) PRINCETON, N.J. -- At a flea market many years ago, I paid 50 cents for a badly worn paperback copy of Niccolo Machiavelli's "The Prince," a book that I had often heard of but never managed to read. Some previous owner of the book had thoughtfully highlighted all the good bits with a heavy yellow marker, so there was no need to read the whole thing, though I have now done so several times over the intervening decades.

Most of Machiavelli's advice to his own Prince, Lorenzo the Magnificent, is timeless wisdom, because ...

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