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A Defense of Mr. Bennett

A Defense of Mr. Bennett

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Eleanor Stern
Mar 31, 2025
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Today, I find myself doing something objectively annoying: articulating an argument, then getting frustrated when people more or less agree with me, and then proceeding to play devil’s advocate and argue with my own original argument. To make matters worse, the argument is over a fictional character. Then again, Pride and Prejudice is very much a living…

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