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The Words Of Socrates.

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[1]      A house was built by Socrates      That failed the public taste to please.      Some blamed the inside; some, the out; and all      Agreed that the apartments were too small.      Such rooms for him, the greatest sage of Greece!      'I ask,' said he, 'no greater bliss      Than real friends to fill e'en this.'      And reason had good Socrates      To think his house too large for these.      A crowd to be your friends will claim,      Till some unhandsome test you bring.      There's nothing plentier than the name;      There's nothing rarer than the thing.

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