... this object."" Thoreau's regard for the classics contrasts sharply with the Babbitt family's opinion of them. Ted Babbitt declares: "I don't see why they give us this old-fashioned junk by Milton and Shakespeare and Wordsworth, all the has-beens these teachers, how do they get that way?- Mrs. Babbitt also expresses her discontent with Shakespeare, but she does so for the ... ...

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