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Oh, tricky and scandalous partnership, when
the one brings what is worth fifty thousand sesterces into
the partnership, the other what is worth a hundred thousand; unless you are indignant at
this, that you took the fifty thousand out of your strong box, and Roscius got his
hundred thousand out of his learning and skill. For what was it that Panurgus brought
with him on the stage? What was the expectation formed of him why was there such zeal
for him, such partiality to him? Because he was the pupil of Roscius. They who loved the
one, favoured the other; they who admired the one, approved of the other; lastly, all
who had heard the name of the one, thought the other well-trained and accomplished. And
this is the way with the common people; they estimate few things by the real truth, many
things by prejudice.
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