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1188.

Rules of Life (1188-1202).

If you governed your body by the rules of virtue you would not walk on all fours in this world.

You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.  639


Footnotes

296:639 : The first sentence is obscure. Compare Nos. 825, 826.


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