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“No, no; I shall propose to do away with them all, for the only effect of maintaining them is that our crops are stolen.”“But if you do away with the garrisons, don't you think that anyone will be at liberty to rob us openly? However, have you been on a tour of inspection, or how do you know that they are badly maintained?”“By guess-work.”“Then shall we wait to offer advice on this question too until we really know, instead of merely guessing?”“Perhaps it would be better.”“Now for the silver mines.
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 4. E. C. Marchant. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1923.
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