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[511c] such as that which you bid me cultivate—rhetoric, the art that preserves us in the law courts?

Callicles
Yes, on my word I do, and sound advice it is that I give you.

Socrates
But now, my excellent friend, do you think there is anything grand in the accomplishment of swimming?

Callicles
No, in truth, not I.

Socrates
Yet, you know, that too saves men from death, when they have got into a plight of the kind in which that accomplishment is needed. But if this seems to you too small a thing, I will tell you of a more important one,


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