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id: chapter_031-suspicion
title: chapter_031-suspicion
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flesch: 78
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summary:
  Suspicions cloud the mind and cloud the brain. In fearful natures they gain ground too fast. Men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not to keep their suspicions in smother. The best way to clear the way in this wood of suspicions is to communicate them with the party that he suspects.


id: chapter_025-dispatch
title: chapter_025-dispatch
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sentence: 23
flesch: 70
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summary:
  Affected dispatch is one of the most dangerous things to business. True dispatch is a rich thing. Time is the measure of business, as money is of wares. Long and curious speeches are as fit for dispatch as a robe or mantle with a long train is for race.


id: chapter_004-revenge
title: chapter_004-revenge
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flesch: 81
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summary:
  Revenge is a kind of wild justice. The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs for which there is no law to punish. Cosmus, duke of Florence, had a desperate saying against perfidious or neglecting friends.


id: chapter_005-adversity
title: chapter_005-adversity
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flesch: 65
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summary:
  Seneca said that the good things that belong to prosperity are to be wished for, but the good ones that belong in adversity are admired. The virtue of prosperity is temperance and the virtue of adversity is fortitude. The ancient poets have been busy with this subject matter.


id: chapter_024-innovations
title: chapter_024-innovations
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words: 402
sentence: 12
flesch: 62
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summary:
  Time is the greatest innovator. New things are like strangers, more admired, and less favored than old things. It is good not to try experiments in states unless the necessity is evident. The reformation draws on the change, and not the desire of change.


id: chapter_012-boldness
title: chapter_012-boldness
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flesch: 77
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summary:
  In Demosthenes, the chief part of an orator is action. Boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness, far inferior to other parts, but fascinates people. It has done wonders in popular states, but with senates, and princes less, than soon after.


id: chapter_007-parents_and_children
title: chapter_007-parents_and_children
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sentence: 19
flesch: 67
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summary:
  The difference in affection between parents and their children is unequal, especially in mothers. The Italians make no difference between children and their relatives. Men should keep their authority towards the children, but not their purse, as it is best for them.


id: chapter_006-simulation_and_dissimulation
title: chapter_006-simulation_and_dissimulation
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sentence: 45
flesch: 70
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summary:
  Dissimulation is the weaker sort of politics. Livia sorted well with the arts of her husband and dissimulation of her son. Mucianus encouraged Vespasian to take arms against Vitellius.


id: chapter_021-delays
title: chapter_021-delays
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words: 324
sentence: 10
flesch: 71
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summary:
  Fortune is like the market, where many times if you can stay a little, the price will fall. It is better to meet some dangers half way than to keep too long a watch upon their approaches. The ripeness, or unripeness of the occasion must be well weighed.


id: chapter_030-regiment_health
title: chapter_030-regiment_health
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sentence: 21
flesch: 66
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summary:
  Regimen of Health is the best way to preserve health. It is safer to change many things than to change one thing at a time. To be free-minded and cheerfully disposed is one of the best precepts of long-lasting health.


id: chapter_002-death
title: chapter_002-death
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sentence: 24
flesch: 71
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summary:
  Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark. The contemplation of death as the wages of sin is holy and religious, but the fear of it as a tribute to nature is weak. Many times death passes with less pain than the torture of a limb.


id: chapter_026-seeming_wise
title: chapter_026-seeming_wise
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words: 451
sentence: 13
flesch: 59
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summary:
  There are some people who seem to be wiser than they are, while others are more reserved and secretive. Some help themselves with countenance and gesture, and are wise by signs. Some make light of things that are beyond their reach, so their ignorance seems judgmental.


id: chapter_028-expense
title: chapter_028-expense
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words: 411
sentence: 17
flesch: 72
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summary:
  Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions. Extraordinary expense should be limited by the worth of the occasion. If a man will keep but of even hand, his ordinary expenses should be but to the half of his receipts. If he thinks to wax rich, he should spend only to the third part. It is no baseness to look into one's own estate.


id: chapter_023-wisdom_for_a_mans_self
title: chapter_023-wisdom_for_a_mans_self
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words: 528
sentence: 21
flesch: 74
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summary:
  Wisdom for a man's self is more tolerable in a sovereign prince than in a servant to a prince or a citizen in a republic. Self-love is a poor centre of the actions of a man. A servant's good should be preferred before the master's.


id: chapter_014-nobility
title: chapter_014-nobility
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sentence: 20
flesch: 66
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summary:
  A monarchy without nobility is pure and absolute tyranny. For democracies, where there is no nobility, people's eyes are on the business, and not on the persons. A great and potent nobility adds majesty to a monarch, but diminisheth power. Many of the nobility fall, in time, to be weak in fortune.


id: chapter_017-superstition
title: chapter_017-superstition
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flesch: 53
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summary:
  It's better to have no opinion of God than such an opinion as is unworthy of him. Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. The causes of superstition are pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies, excess of outward and pharisaical holiness, reverence of traditions, and the stratagems of prelates.


id: chapter_001-truth
title: chapter_001-truth
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flesch: 67
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summary:
  What is truth? Pilate would not stay for an answer. It is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again, that when it is found, it imposeth upon men's thoughts. Truth is a naked, open day-light, that doth not show masks, mummeries, and triumphs of the world.


id: chapter_010-love
title: chapter_010-love
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sentence: 19
flesch: 65
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summary:
  Love is the most powerful emotion in the life of man. Epicurus says it is impossible to love and to be wise. Appius Claudius was a voluptuous man and Marcus Antonius was an austere and wise man, but they were lovers.


id: chapter_032-discourse
title: chapter_032-discourse
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sentence: 24
flesch: 73
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summary:
  In discourse and speech of conversation it is good to vary and intermingle the speech of the present occasion with arguments, tales with reasons, asking of questions, with telling of opinions, and jest with earnest. Some people think their wits have been asleep, except when they dart out something that is piquant.


id: chapter_013-goodness_goodness_nature
title: chapter_013-goodness_goodness_nature
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words: 858
sentence: 30
flesch: 68
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summary:
  Goodness answers to the theological virtue, charity, and admits no excess, but error. The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man. The Italians have an ungracious proverb, Tanto buon che val niente: so good that he is good for nothing.


id: chapter_008-marriage_and_single_life
title: chapter_008-marriage_and_single_life
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sentence: 21
flesch: 71
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summary:
  He that has a wife and children gives hostages to fortune. Unmarried men are best friends, best masters and best servants, but not always best subjects. Single men are more cruel and hardhearted, because their tenderness is not so oft called upon.


id: chapter_018-travel
title: chapter_018-travel
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sentence: 26
flesch: 64
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summary:
  Travel is a part of education, in the younger sort, and in the elder. It is a strange thing that in sea voyages, where there is nothing to be seen, men should make diaries, but in land-travel, where so much is to be observed, for the most part they omit it. Let diaries be brought in use.


id: chapter_011-great_place
title: chapter_011-great_place
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sentence: 48
flesch: 73
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summary:
  Men in great places are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business. They have no freedom, neither in their persons nor in their actions. They are impatient of privateness, even in age and sickness.


id: chapter_016-atheism
title: chapter_016-atheism
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sentence: 31
flesch: 65
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summary:
  Atheism is in the lip, rather than in the heart of man. Epicurus, Leucippus, Democritus and Epicurus were atheists. They believed in four mutable elements, and one immutable fifth essence.


id: chapter_003-unity_in_religion
title: chapter_003-unity_in_religion
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sentence: 55
flesch: 66
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summary:
  Heresies, schisms and heresies are the greatest scandals, because they keep people out of the church and drive them out. The true God is a jealous God, and his worship and religion will endure no mixture, nor partner.


id: chapter_022-cunning
title: chapter_022-cunning
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flesch: 67
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summary:
  There is a difference between a cunning man and a wise man. It is a point of cunning to wait upon the person with whom you speak with your eye, as the Jesuits give it in precept. When you have something to obtain, entertain and amuse the party with which you deal, so that he is not too awake to make objections.


id: chapter_020-counsel
title: chapter_020-counsel
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sentence: 49
flesch: 62
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summary:
  The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel. God made it one of the great names of his blessed Son: The Counsellor. The wisest princes needn't think it diminution to their greatness, or derogation to their sufficiency, to rely upon counsel.


id: chapter_009-envy
title: chapter_009-envy
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sentence: 64
flesch: 71
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summary:
  A man that is busy and inquisitive is commonly envious. Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men, when they rise. A man that has no virtue in himself, envies virtue in others.


id: chapter_019-empire
title: chapter_019-empire
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sentence: 47
flesch: 62
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summary:
  The mind of man is more cheered and refreshed by profiting in small things than by standing at a stay. The true temper of empire is rare and hard to keep. Apollonius answered Vespasian's question about the cause of Nero's overthrow.


id: chapter_015-seditions_and_troubles
title: chapter_015-seditions_and_troubles
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flesch: 62
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summary:
  Libels and licentious discourses against the state are among the signs of troubles. Virgil gives the pedigree of Fame as sister to the Giants. The best actions of a state are taken in ill sense and traduced, as Tacitus saith.


id: chapter_027-friendship
title: chapter_027-friendship
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flesch: 64
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summary:
  According to him, a man who detests society and loves solitude is either a wild beast or a god. He believes that friendship is the principal fruit of solitude, because it is the ease and discharge of the fulness of the heart.


id: chapter_038-nature_in_men
title: chapter_038-nature_in_men
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sentence: 17
flesch: 65
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summary:
  Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. He that seeketh victory over his nature should not set himself too great or too small tasks. Let him practise with helps, as swimmers do with bladders or rushes, and after a time with disadvantages, as dancers do with thick shoes.


id: chapter_036-ambition
title: chapter_036-ambition
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summary:
  Ambition is like choler. It is good for princes if they use ambitious men to handle the affairs of the state, but it is good not to use such natures at all. Good commanders in the wars must be never so ambitious. Ambitions are useful in being screens to princes in matters of danger and envy. They are less dangerous if they are of mean birth.


id: chapter_037-masques_and_triumphs
title: chapter_037-masques_and_triumphs
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sentence: 23
flesch: 77
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summary:
  Dancing to song is a thing of great state and pleasure. Acting in song, especially in dialogues, is an extreme good grace. The colors that show best by candle-light are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water-green.


id: chapter_035-prophecies
title: chapter_035-prophecies
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sentence: 36
flesch: 74
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summary:
  There are many prophecies that have been of certain memory and from hidden causes. Homer, Seneca, Polycrates, Tiberius, Vespasian, M. Brutus, Domitian, Henry the Seventh and Dr. Penal are just a few examples.


id: chapter_039-custom_and_education
title: chapter_039-custom_and_education
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sentence: 22
flesch: 67
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summary:
  Men's thoughts are according to their inclination, their discourse and speeches according to learning and infused opinions, but their deeds are after as they have been accustomed. Machiavel knew not of Friar Clement or Ravillac, nor a Jaureguy or Baltazar Gerard, but he knew of the rule that nature, nor the engagement of words, are not so forcible as custom.


id: chapter_029-the_true_greatness_kingdoms_and_estates
title: chapter_029-the_true_greatness_kingdoms_and_estates
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flesch: 63
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summary:
  There are two types of people who can make a small state great and one that can't. The greatness of an estate, in bulk and territory, doth fall under measure, and the greatness of finances and revenue, falls under computation.


id: chapter_040-fortune
title: chapter_040-fortune
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sentence: 27
flesch: 74
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summary:
  The way of fortune is like the Milken Way in the sky, which is a meeting or knot of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together. There are secret and hidden virtues that bring fortune. Extreme lovers of their country or masters were never fortunate.


id: chapter_033-plantations
title: chapter_033-plantations
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sentence: 38
flesch: 69
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summary:
  Plantations are among ancient, primitive, and heroical works. Planting of countries is like planting of woods. People should be gardeners, ploughmen, laborers, smiths, carpenters, joiners, fishermen, fowlers, apothecaries, surgeons, cooks, and bakers. The principal thing that destroys most plantations is the base and hasty drawing of profit.


id: chapter_034-riches
title: chapter_034-riches
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sentence: 47
flesch: 74
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summary:
  Riches are the baggage of virtue. They are of no real use except in distribution. Riches are as a strong hold, in the imagination of the rich man. They have sold more men than they have bought out. They come by the death of others.


id: chapter_044-deformity
title: chapter_044-deformity
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words: 397
sentence: 15
flesch: 65
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summary:
  Deformed persons are commonly even with nature. Deform deformity is an advantage to rising. Kings in ancient times used to trust eunuchs more than good magistrates and officers, because they were more obnoxious and officious towards one.


id: chapter_043-beauty
title: chapter_043-beauty
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words: 394
sentence: 14
flesch: 69
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summary:
  Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set, while virtue is best in a body that is comely, though not of delicate features. In beauty, that of favor is more important than that of color, and that of decent and gracious motion more important. A painter may make a better face than ever, but he must do it by felicity.


id: chapter_050-studies
title: chapter_050-studies
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words: 506
sentence: 19
flesch: 68
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summary:
  Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. They perfect nature and are perfected by experience. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Histories make men wise, poets witty, natural philosophy deep, moral grave, logic and rhetoric able to contend.


id: chapter_048-followers_and_friends
title: chapter_048-followers_and_friends
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sentence: 19
flesch: 65
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summary:
  Costly followers are not to be liked, because they charge the purse and are wearisome. Factious followers follow not upon affection to him, but upon discontentment. Great followers are full of inconvenience and taint business through want of secrecy. The most honorable kind of following is to be followed as one that apprehends to advance virtue.


id: chapter_052-ceremonies_and_respect
title: chapter_052-ceremonies_and_respect
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words: 537
sentence: 19
flesch: 65
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txt: txt/chapter_052-ceremonies_and_respect.txt
summary:
  Ceremonies add to a man's reputation. Small matters win great commendation, because they are continually in use and in note. Not to use ceremonies is to teach others not to use them again. It is a good precept generally, in seconding another, yet to add some of one's own to it.


id: chapter_042-youth_and_age
title: chapter_042-youth_and_age
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sentence: 25
flesch: 69
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summary:
  A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time. Young men are fitter to invent, than to judge, fitter for execution, than for counsel, and for new projects, than settled business. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and settle for mediocrity.


id: chapter_047-negotiating
title: chapter_047-negotiating
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words: 517
sentence: 14
flesch: 60
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txt: txt/chapter_047-negotiating.txt
summary:
  It is better to deal by speech than by letter, and by mediation of a third than by a man's self. It is better dealing with men in appetite than with those that are where they would be. All practice is to discover, or to work.


id: chapter_041-usury
title: chapter_041-usury
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sentence: 50
flesch: 72
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txt: txt/chapter_041-usury.txt
summary:
  The discommodities of usury are that it makes fewer merchants and it makes poor merchants. It also brings the treasure of a realm or state into a few hands. It is good to set before us the incommodities and commodities of the usury so that the good may be weighed out.


id: chapter_049-suitors
title: chapter_049-suitors
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sentence: 20
flesch: 65
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txt: txt/chapter_049-suitors.txt
summary:
  There is a difference between good and bad suits. Some suits are for entertainment, while others are to gratify the suitor's hopes. In suits of favor, the first coming should take little place, so that the party left to his other means, and recompensed for his discovery.


id: chapter_055-honor_and_reputation
title: chapter_055-honor_and_reputation
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words: 570
sentence: 23
flesch: 65
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txt: txt/chapter_055-honor_and_reputation.txt
summary:
  The winning of honor is revealing of a man's virtue and worth. The true marshalling of the degrees of sovereign honor are conditores imperiorum, founders of states and commonwealths, lawgivers, liberatores, and salvatores.


id: chapter_057-anger
title: chapter_057-anger
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words: 644
sentence: 31
flesch: 76
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txt: txt/chapter_057-anger.txt
summary:
  Anger is the natural inclination and habit to be angry, but it can be repressed or at least refrained from doing mischief. Three main causes and motives of anger are chiefly three: to be too sensible of hurt, to be full of contempt, and to have a reputation.


id: chapter_051-faction
title: chapter_051-faction
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words: 567
sentence: 16
flesch: 58
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txt: txt/chapter_051-faction.txt
summary:
  Factions are important in politics. The lower and weaker faction is the firmer in conjunction. When one of the factions is extinguished, the remaining subdivideth. Great men are better to maintain themselves indifferent and neutral than to follow a faction.


id: chapter_053-praise
title: chapter_053-praise
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words: 536
sentence: 19
flesch: 65
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txt: txt/chapter_053-praise.txt
summary:
  Praise is the reflection of virtue. The lowest virtues draw praise from them, while the middle virtues work in them astonishment or admiration. Shows, and species virtutibus similes, serve best with the highest virtues. Some praises proceed merely of flattery, others of good wishes and respects, and some maliciously.


id: chapter_059-fame
title: chapter_059-fame
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words: 548
sentence: 19
flesch: 72
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summary:
  The poets make Fame a monster. They describe her in part finely and elegantly and in part gravely and sententiously. Fame is of that force, as there is scarcely any great action where it does not play a great part. There is not a place less handled and more worthy to be handled than this of fame.


id: chapter_054-vainglory
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flesch: 66
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summary:
  Vain-glory is an essential point of military and civil affairs. It helps to perpetuate a man's memory and to sharpen his courage. It also helps to breed opinion and bring substance to the affairs of the people.


id: chapter_045-building
title: chapter_045-building
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summary:
  Houses are built to live in, and not to look on. Pompey asked Lucullus about his stately galleries and rooms in one of his houses. He replied that they are good for summer, but not for winter.


id: chapter_056-judicature
title: chapter_056-judicature
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summary:
  The principal duty of a judge is to suppress force and fraud. The office of judges may have reference to the parties that use it, the advocates that plead, the clerks and ministers of justice underneath them, and to the sovereign or state above them.


id: chapter_058-vicissitude_things
title: chapter_058-vicissitude_things
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summary:
  There is no new thing upon the earth. Deluges and earthquakes bury all things in oblivion. People of the West Indies are a newer or younger people than the people of the Old World. They have such pouring rivers as the rivers of Asia and Africk and Europe. Their Andes and mountains are far higher than those with us.


id: chapter_046-gardens
title: chapter_046-gardens
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summary:
  Gardening is the purest of human pleasures. God Almighty planted a garden. For December, and January, and the latter part of November, you must take such things as are green all winter as holly, ivy, bays, juniper, cypress-trees, yew, pine-apple, fir, fir trees, rosemary, lavender, periwinkle, the white, the purple, the blue, germander, flags, orange, orange trees, lemon trees, and myrtles. For March, there come violets, yellow daffodils, yellow daisy, daisy and daisy. For April, there are flowers of all kinds, except mus


