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A new student once asked Euclid, “But what shall I get by learning these things?”
The geometer called his slave and said, “Give him three obols, since he must make gain out of what he learns.”
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A new student once asked Euclid, “But what shall I get by learning these things?”
The geometer called his slave and said, “Give him three obols, since he must make gain out of what he learns.”
