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find pleasure in the maxims of the old, by which they are drawn to the pursuit of excellence, as the wise old take pleasure in young men of good parts.

Recast in definition form from: “… just as old men, if they are wise, take pleasure in the society of young men of good parts, and as old age is rendered less dreary for those who are courted and liked by the youth, so also do young men find pleasure in the maxims of the old, by which they are drawn to the pursuit of excellence.”

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