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Or fame or life,
Which do you hold more dear?
Or life or wealth,
To which do you adhere?
Keep life and loose those other things;
Keep them and loose your life:–which brings
Sorrow and pain more near?
Thus we may see,
Who cleaves to fame
Rejects what is more great;
Who loves large stores
Gives up the richer state.
Who is content
Needs fear no shame.
Who knows [...]