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truth, silent and secret enmities are more to be dreaded than war openly declared
and waged against us. There's scarcely one man of noble birth who looks favourably
on our industry; there are no services of ours by which we can secure their
good-will; they differ from us in disposition and inclination, as if they were of a
different race and a different nature. What danger then is there to us in their
enmity, when their dispositions are already averse and inimical to us before we have
at all provoked their enmity?
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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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