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One who has bought land should sell his town house so that he will have no desire to worship the household gods of the city rather than those of the country; the man who takes greater delight in his city residence will have no need of a country estate.
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886:Categories
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638:Hermathena
372:2.348-353.
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209:References
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92:1.1.18.
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