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‘I must have more than two hundred. I should be satisfied with three hundred, but I’ll take as much more as I can get.’
‘My revered tutor, this is shameless. I came to pay my respects to a philosopher, and I find a sordid worldling. Look at me! I am a man of the largest needs, spiritual and physical, yet I make my pittance of four hundred and fifty suffice, and never grumble. Perhaps you aim at an income equal to my own?’
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