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When the slave auctioneer asked in what he was proficient, he replied, In ruling people.
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He was breakfasting in the marketplace, and the bystanders gathered round him with cries of dog. It is you who are dogs, cried he, when you stand round and watch me at my breakfast.
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The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
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Blushing is the color of virtue.
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