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The Painted Veil
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Clara Benson
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“are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give thought to wisdom or truth, or the best possible state of your soul?”
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Plato, Five Dialogues

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