Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.
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They the Persians are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine but whatever they in this situation may determine is again proposed to them on the morrow, in their cooler moments, by the person in whose house they had before assembled. If at this time also it meet their approbation, it is executed otherwise it is rejected. Whatever also they discuss when sober, is always a second time examined after they have been drinking.
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I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.
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