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 1 1 | orations, nor to showing~myself off as a man who practises much
 2 1 |       in a hurry, and never put off~doing a thing, nor was perplexed
 3 1 |       foresee things a long way off, and to provide for~the
 4 1 |    desire, without putting them off with hope of my doing it~
 5 2 |     long thou hast been putting off these things, and how~often
 6 3 |        let studied~ornament set off thy thoughts, and be not
 7 4 |          just as an olive falls off~when it is ripe, blessing
 8 5 |      mutilated, if thou cuttest off anything whatever from the~
 9 5 |       causes.~And thou dost cut off, as far as it is in thy
10 7 |       is intolerable carries us off; but that~which lasts a
11 8 |       didst ever see a hand cut off, or a foot, or a head, lying~
12 8 |      and does not glide or fall off. Such then ought to~be the
13 10| magnanimity. Such a man has put off the body, and as he sees
14 11|  happenest to be.~ A branch cut off from the adjacent branch
15 11|        must of necessity be cut~off from the whole tree also.
16 11|     from~another man has fallen off from the whole social community.
17 11|         branch, another cuts it off, but a man by his own act
18 11|       the same time cut himself off~from the whole social system.
19 11|      that which after being cut off is~then ingrafted, for this