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Men of no importance, born in an obscure rank, go to sea; they go to places which
they have never seen before; where they can neither be known to the men among whom
they have arrived, nor always find people to vouch for them. But still, owing to
this confidence in the mere fact of their citizenship, they think that they shall be
safe, not only among our own magistrates, who are restrained by fear of the laws and
of public opinion, nor among our fellow citizens only, who are limited with them by
community of language, of rights, and of many other things; but wherever they come
they think that this will be a protection to them.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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