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XIII explained
A brief aphorism suggesting that a man with one leg is superior to a man with two legs because there is less of him.
What happens
A brief aphorism suggesting that a man with one leg is superior to a man with two legs because there is less of him.
Key passages
“A man with but one leg is a better man than a man with two legs, for the reason that there is less of him.”
A one-legged man is better than a two-legged man simply because he has less body.
A paradoxical statement equating physical reduction with moral or qualitative superiority.