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And, even if no one were to answer you, yet you would not, as I
think, be able to state and prove even the cause itself. Do you now never give it a
thought, that you will have a contest with a most eloquent man, and one in a perfect
state of preparation for speaking, with whom you will at one time have to argue, and at
another time to strive and contend against him with all your might? Whose abilities
indeed I praise greatly, but not so as to be afraid of them, and think highly of,
thinking however at the same time that I am more easily to be pleased by them than
cajoled by them.
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