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Philistine - a word which I understand properly to denote indifference to the higher intellectual interests. The word may also be defined, however, as the name applied by prigs to the rest of their species.

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Leslie Stephen
Age: 71 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 28
Died: 1904
Died: February 22
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