Talk:George Henry Boker

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His easy circumstances made it possible for him to balance his ascetic taste for scholarship with riding horse-back. To which he added the skilled ability to box, fence and dance.

This is not English; what meaning is ascetic intended to bear? Septentrionalis 22:57, 17 July 2005 (UTC)