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"However, there came an end to our amusement, when one fine day we received the 'consilium abeundi. "I was certainly not very much annoyed. So much transcendental science, so much knowledge of the world had been driven into me already, that I longed to go home to the company of the village sexton, who, still believed that anecdotes and fables were the highest science.
The worst state of man is that wherein he loses the knowledge and government of himself. And 'tis said amongst other things upon this subject, that, as the must fermenting in a vessel, works up to the top whatever it has in the bottom, so wine, in those who have drunk beyond measure, vents the most inward secrets: "Tu sapientum Curas et arcanum jocoso Consilium retegis Lyaeo."
"Take care, Master Henderson," said Douglas, in a tone which seemed almost sarcastic, "lest you rush hastily on an adventure to which you have no vocation you are learned, and know the adage, Ne accesseris in consilium nisi vocatus. Who hath required this at your hand?"
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