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Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. but if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).
-Epictetus
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Avoid Banquets Which Are Given By Strangers

Epictetus
Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. but if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).
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