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Books Every Young and Wildly Ambitious Man Should Read

On: April 10, 2020

36 Books Every Young and Wildly Ambitious Man Should Read Editor’s note: This is a guest article from Ryan Holiday. If there is one thing the great men of history have in common it’s this: books. They read, a lot. Theodore Roosevelt carried a dozen books with him on his perilous explorationContinue Reading

What is a Fop? Let’s try to define.

On: March 30, 2020

In: "THE WAY OF A HUMAN", OBSERVATIONS

Wikipedia’s definition: Fop became a pejorative term for a foolish man excessively concerned with his appearance and clothes in 17th-century England. Some of the many similar alternative terms are coxcomb,[1] fribble, popinjay (meaning ‘parrot’), fashion-monger, and ninny. Macaroni was another term of the 18th century more specifically concerned with fashion. The pejorative term today carries the connotation of a person, usuallyContinue Reading