With any work worth its salt you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions you are not taking its measure.
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
Will it and set to work briskly.
They would need to be already wise in order to love wisdom.
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
I know I got to eat. But I got to live too.
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