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and everything else on the same principle of not touching the affairs of others but performing and doing his own for himself?I think not, he replied.But still, I said, a state whose conduct is temperate will be well conducted.Of course, he said.Then doing one's own business in that sense and in that way will not be temperance.Apparently not.So that person was riddling, it seems, just as I said a moment ago, when he said that doing one's own business is temperance. For I take it he was not such a fool as all that: or was it some idiot
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