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and esteemed like the object before the mirror as compared with its image reflected in the mir- ror, — one being something in itself, and the other nothing. Little to nature do they owe, since it is merely by chance they wear the human form, and but for it I might include them with herds of cattle.

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A well lettered man is so because he is well na- tured, and just as the cause is more admirable than the effect, so is a good disposition, unlet- tered, more praiseworthy than a well lettered man who is without natural disposition.

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Against certain commentators who disparage the inventors of antiquity, the originators of science and grammar, and who attack the creators of an- tiquity; and because they through laziness and the convenience of books have not been able to create, they attack their masters with false rea- soning.

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It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

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rience Wisdom is the daughter of experience.

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Wrongly men complain of experience, which 12

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