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When I wander away with Death.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I know how it is that the path of the Mean is not walked in — The knowing go beyond it, and the stupid do not come up to it. I know how it is that the path of the Mean is not understood — The men of talents and virtue go beyond it, and the worthless do not come up to it.”
Source: The Doctrine of the Mean
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