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Economics (3.8-3.9)

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And suppose I show you that some have been brought to penury by keeping horses, while others prosper by doing so, and moreover glory in their gain?
Well, I too see and know instances of both; I am not one of the gainers for all that.

The fact is you watch them just as you watch the actors in tragedy or comedy, not, I suppose, to become a playwright, but for the pleasure of seeing and hearing something. And perhaps there is no harm in that, because you don’t want to write plays; but seeing that you are forced to meddle with horses, don’t you think that common-sense requires you to see that you are not ignorant of the business, the more so as the self-same horses are both good to use and profitable to sell?

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