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Cats are never bored, content with their nature, and free from abstractions. They have much to teach humans.

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Upper classes who once prized Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring now esteem no art higher than rap and Miami Vice.

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Art for the Country’s Sake

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Our constitutional order grows not out of liberal ideology but from roots in nature and historical experience.

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