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Moral Letters Vol I

Seneca

§ Section 6

On master and slave

47:6

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Another carves the priceless game birds; with unerring strokes and skilled hand he cuts choice morsels along the breast or the rump.

Hapless fellow, to live only for the purpose of cutting fat capons correctly,—unless, indeed, the other man is still more unhappy than he, who teaches this art for pleasure’s sake, rather than he who learns it because he must.