"A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as "a tree as it ought to be."
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"One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him."
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