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Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater.

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Epictetus
Philosopher
Epictetus of Hierapolis
Practice
Greater
Heaven
Littles
Thence
Little
Proceed
Things
Philosophical
Sake
Discipline

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