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Tudor school-boy life

Note 68 — TUDOR SCHOOL-BOY LIFE (continued 2)

Foster Watson translation

As he passed by one day, Diogenes, who was washing vegetables, scoffed at him and said: “If you had learnt to live on these, you would not frequent the courts of kings;” and he said: “If you knew how to associate with your fellow men, you would not be washing vegetables.”

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