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F a Frederick Apthorp Paley
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Laert, vi. 2, 53. 126. Some one was desirous to study philosophy under Diogenes. He put a red herring into his hands, and said, Follow me. The applicant, ashamed to do so, tossed away the fish and left him. After a time Diogenes met him, and said, " The friend- ship between you and me has been broken off by a red herring. " Ibid. Vi. 2. 36. 127. The same, observing a little boy drinking water with his hands, took out of his scrip a cup which he carried in it, and flung it away, saying, " That b...oy has beaten me in thrift. " Shortly afterwards, he threw away his plate too, on seeing another boy who had just broken his, and was holding his por- ridge in a hole which he had scooped in his loaf. Ibid. 37. GREEK WIT. 33 128. On some Athenian remarking, "You Spartans are too much given to doing nothing, " Nicander replied, " And you Athenians to doing too much. " Plut. Ap. Lac. Nic. 3. 129. Panthoides was asked what he thought of the lectures on morality delivered by the philosophers in the Academy?
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