Do not ask: "Why were the former days better than the present ones?"

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Do not ask: "Why were the former days better than the present ones?"

The wise and the foolish. · Wise and unwise conduct. · Choices. · Present values chosen. · The present preferred to the past. · view the constellation · filed as J311.2

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The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

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Count only the waves before you. Fox sees man trying to count the waves. Advises him to count only those immediately before him and to pay no attention to those which have already passed

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