Keep Reading, Babe

That we cannot thus change at will is due to two causes; the one is the impossibility of resisting the natural bent of our characters; and the other is the difficulty of persuading ourselves, after having been accustomed to success by a certain mode of proceeding, that any other can succeed as well.  -- Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy IX

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[Chris McClure]

So that's what she's learning from Machiavelli...I thought maybe she was planning to unite Italy and drive out the barbarian hordes.