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As that thou also perchance dost think it a happines"}, {"id": "card_n_beed2fb14aaf", "title": "Aurelius, Meditations §aur_08_xlvii: Keep thyself to the first bare and naked apprehensions of things, as they pre...", "shelf": "classics", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Keep thyself to the first bare and naked apprehensions of things, as they present themselves unto thee, and add not unto them. It is reported unto thee, that such a one speaketh ill of thee. Well; tha"}]}