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"What should I have done, you triple fool, when I was.
dying of hunger?
I suppose I should have listened to opinions as much to the purpose as the tinkle of broken glass or the interpretation of dreams.

By Hercules, you are much more deserving of censure than I, you who will flatter a poet so as to get an invitation to dinner!" Then we laughed ourselves out of a most disgraceful quarrel, and approached more peaceably whatever remained to be done.

But the remembrance of that injury recurred to my mind and, "Ascyltos," I said, "I know we shall not be able to agree, so let us divide our little packs of common stock and try to defeat our poverty by our individual efforts.

Both you and I know letters, but that I may not stand in the way of any undertaking of yours, I will take up some other profession.