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tarry not: I am no summer friend, but wintry cold, A silly sheep benighted from the fold, A sluggard with a thorn-choked garden plot. Take counsel, sever from my lot your lot, Dwell in your pleasant places, hoard your gold; Lest you with...

the existential necessity to seize uncharted territories across oceans. In contrast, fragmented European polities, choked off from Eastern trade routes by the Ottoman Empire, operated under desperate survival pressures: expand across...

plants were scroched and they withered because they had no root. 7. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. 8. Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop- a hundred, sixty or thirty times what...

and when it grew, it withered for lack of moisture. Some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew with it and choked it. And some seed fell on good soil, and when it grew, it produced fruit a hundredfold.” After saying this, he...