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And I see that the trial of this will be immediate; for if you
are able today to answer me and these things which I am saying; if you even depart one
word from that book which some elocution-master or other has given you, made up of other
men's speeches; I shall think that you are able to speak, and that you are not unequal
to that trial also, and that you will be able to do justice to the cause and to the duty
you undertake. But if in this preliminary skirmish with me you turn out nothing, what
can we suppose you will be in the contest itself against a most active adversary?
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