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hast the power to shorten or prolong the lives of men.

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Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labour.

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And many make a trade deceiving the foolish multitude, and if no one comes to unmask their deceits, they punish it.

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Pharisees,— that is to say, holy friars.

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Nothing can be written by means of new researches.

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Patience serves against insults as clothes do against the cold ; since if you multiply your clothes as the cold increases, the cold cannot hurt you. Similarly, let thy patience increase under great offences, and they will not be able to hurt your feelings.

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Words which do not satisfy the ear of the listener will always weary or annoy him ; and you will often see signs of this in such listeners in their frequent yawns. Therefore, you who speak before men whose good opinion you seek, when you ob-

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