- Well, as a matter of fact, I won't, because Wood drastically underestimates the impact of...
- The impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth?

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- My contention is that prior to the Revolutionary War, the economic modalities, especially in the southern colonies could most aptly be characterized as agrarian precapitalist.

- Of course that's your contention. You're a first-year grad student. You just got finished readin' some Marxian historian, Pete Garrison, probably.

- You're gonna be convinced of that till next month when you get to James Lemon.

- Then you're gonna be talkin' about how the economies of Virginia and Pennsylvania were entrepreneurial and capitalist way back in 1740.

- That's gonna last until next year. You're gonna be in here regurgitatin' Gordon Wood talkin' about, you know, the prerevolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization.

- Well, as a matter of fact, I won't, because Wood drastically underestimates the impact of...

- The impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth?

- You got that from Vickers' Work in Essex County. Page 98, right? Yeah, I read that, too.

- Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter?

- Or do you is that your thing? You come into a bar. You read some obscure passage and then pretend... you pawn it off as your own idea just to impress some girls? Embarrass my friend?

- See, the sad thing about a guy like you is, in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own. And you're gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life.

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