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Anthology of asininity

PERHAPS THE MOST salient piece of advice in this new guide to life as a twenty-first century male is contained in what James Innes-Smith, following Shakespeare’s much-quoted lines from As You Like It, correlates to the fourth stage of man’s journey from birth to senescence, middle age: “Don’t dye your hair. It never looks natural and your friends will think you are mad.”

As regards the rest of the book, it’s hard to decide whether it is a cynically imitative attempt

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