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 1 Text| ill-provided; whereas if he had the house of Polytion, and the house
 2 Text|          house of Polytion, and the house were full of gold and silver,
 3 Text|            one who preferred such a house to the wisdom of Nestor.
 4 Text|            be easier still. Or is a house a most useful and necessary
 5 Text|           things is like building a house,—the work of human agency;
 6 Text|       Scythians a man who owned the house of Polytion would not be
 7 Text|            we wish to enquire why a house is valuable to us but not
 8 Text|           way among the Scythians a house has no value because they
 9 Text|      because they have no use for a house, nor would a Scythian set
10 Text|            much store on the finest house in the world as on a leather
11 Text|       builder when he is building a house?~CRITIAS: They are.~SOCRATES:
12 Text|        useful which are employed in house building,—stones and bricks
13 Text|         which the builder built the house, the beams and stones which