The Book Meme everyone is doing

[drusillamac]

Book Meme (with the following Rules):

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 161.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Use what's actually next to you.

"But as my sister and I grew diet-conscious,

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I think, to shake things up, I'll post mine here. I had to have about five goes because every book I picked up seemed not to have a page 161 for one reason or another.

"Because without public employment in council or majestracy, the honour of their wisdom is lost."

Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, from Modern Political Thought: Readings from Machiavelli to Nietzsche by David Wooton.