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But you are aware that these things too are trifling. Let us consider that which we
began with, than which no more certain argument of dislike can possibly be found. The
father was thinking of disinheriting his son. I do not ask on what account. I ask how
you know it? Although you ought to mention and enumerate all the reasons. And it was the
duty of a regular accuser, who was accusing a man of such wickedness, to unfold all the
vice and sins of a son had exasperated the father so as to enable him to bring his mind
to subdue nature herself—to banish from his mind that affection so deeply
implanted in it—to forget in short that he was a father; and all this I do not
think could have happened without great errors on the part of the son.
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