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for when a man has superior talents whether for speech or for action, one cannot fairly charge it to anything but fortune, but when a man makes good and temperate use of the power which nature has given him, as in my own case, all the world ought in justice to commend his character.However, though I might advance this argument in my behalf, I shall never be found to have had anything to do with speeches for the courts.1
1 See General Introd. p. xx.