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And if riches be coveted [or be desired] in life, what is richer than wisdom, that worketh all things?

Soothly if wit worketh, who is a craftsmaker more than wisdom, of these things that be? [If forsooth wit worketh, who of (all) these that be, more is (a)craftsman than it?]

And if a man loveth rightfulness, the travails of this wisdom have great virtues; for it teacheth soberness, and prudence, and rightfulness, and virtue; and nothing is profitabler than these in life to men. [And if rightwiseness a man loveth, the travails of this have great virtues; soberness forsooth and prudence it teacheth, and rightwiseness, and virtue; than the which more profitable nothing is in life to men.]

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