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 1 Praise|  praised Sophocles in that his happy elegy of us, “To know nothing
 2 Praise|    thing it is for a man to be happy in all things. And to this
 3 Praise|       their imperfections, and happy is he that is pressed with
 4 Praise|    enemy; as ill a soldier, as happy an orator.~But counsel,
 5 Praise|   goodly sentence of Plato’s, “Happy is that commonwealth where
 6 Praise|    pleasure, and in a word are happy, by my courtesy. But I would
 7 Praise|        folly, so are they most happy of all others that have
 8 Praise|       among men they are least happy that study wisdom, as being
 9 Praise|     gods! I think nothing more happy than that generation of
10 Praise|     this every man is the more happy in how many respects the
11 Praise|     than those, or rather more happy, who daily reciting those
12 Praise| pleasant self-love they live a happy life. Nor are they less
13 Praise|       most men superabundantly happy? As when a fellow, more
14 Praise|     Venetians fancy themselves happy in the opinion of their
15 Praise|       that enough to make them happy. Some desire to be accounted
16 Praise|      empire. Nor are they less happy in that new opinion they
17 Praise|    kind, how to be pitied than happy, as persons that are ever
18 Praise|     sense. And yet they are so happy in the good opinion of themselves
19 Praise| ordinary accounts; while being happy in their own opinion, and
20 Praise|      it? And are they not most happy while they do these things?~
21 Praise|     enough, lest perhaps their happy souls might lack room to
22 Praise|       In the meantime they are happy in their hopes, and for
23 Praise|      Which yet they do with so happy an impudence that oftentimes
24 Praise|     madness of lovers the most happy condition of all others.
25 Praise|    himself nor to be otherwise happy in any respect, but that
26 Praise|        that they were the most happy while they were so out of