The Instructions of Ptah-Hotep 

Guide to Conduct Within the Council Chamber

If you be in the chamber of council, act always according to the steps enjoined on you at the beginning of the day. Be not absent, or you shall be expelled; but be ready in entering and making report. Wide is the seat of one that has made address. The council-chamber acts by strict rule; and all its plans are in accordance with method. It is the God that advances one to a seat therein; the like is not done for elbowers.

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