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Nor do I
bring forward these instances in order to compare them with these matters which we are
now investigating; but in order that that may be understood: that, as in the times of
our ancestors, the highest and most illustrious men, who ought at all times to have been
sitting at the helm of the republic, yet devoted much of their attention and time to the
cultivation of their lands; that man ought to be pardoned, who avows himself a rustic,
for having lived constantly in the country, especially when be could do nothing which
was either more pleasing to his father, or more delightful to himself, or in reality
more honourable.
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