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[458c] We ought, therefore, to consider their wishes as well, in case we are detaining any of them who may want to do something else.

Chaerephon
You hear for yourselves, Gorgias and Socrates, the applause by which these gentlemen show their desire to hear anything you may say; for my own part, however, Heaven forbid that I should ever be so busy as to give up a discussion so interesting and so conducted, because I found it more important to attend to something else.


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