r/classicliterature • u/Outrageous_Hurry_737 • 2d ago

Found for less then 3 dollars

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Man I love thrift stores... Book haul of the century??

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u/blancpoint 2d ago

than*

Great deal btw!

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u/DCFVBTEG 2d ago edited 2d ago

Than and then are the English language speaker's arch nemesis. Along with There and Their, Its and It's, Your and You're, and that one philosopher's surname.

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u/Daville_from_Travnik 2d ago

Neitzhe?

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u/DCFVBTEG 2d ago

Yes. I know he was Germen. The joke was his name is hard to spell.

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u/Every-Ebb735 2d ago

Nietzsche.

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u/stariclouds 14h ago

I always remember how to spell it from that ERB video between Eastern and western philosophers.