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and decrepitude, as long/ senility is far off, as long the powers of the senses are unaffected and life is not decaying, so long wise persons should put forth mighty exertions for the sake of their supreme good, for when the house is on fire what avails setting about digging a well ( for water ).
��76. Shall we live 'by the celestial river practising austerities, or shall we amiably serve ( our ) wives graced by virtues, or shall we drink of the currents of scriptural literature or of the nectar of diverse poetical literature? Man having the longevity of a few. twinklings of the eye, we do not know which (of these ) to undertake !
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77. These rulers of the world having? **"" ipinds restless like a horse and (therefore) diffi- 4 cult to please, and ambitious as we are with minds pitched on vast gain, and as age steals
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