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For just take the trouble to recollect not only his manners and his
arrogance, but also his countenance, and his dress, and his purple robe reaching down as far
as his ankles. He, as if it were a thing quite impossible to be borne that he should have been
defeated in this trial, transferred the case from the court of justice to the public assembly.
And do we still reiterate our complaints, that new men have not sufficient encouragement in
this city? I say, that there never was a time or place where they had more; for here, if a
man, though born in a low rank of life, lives so as to seem able to uphold by his virtue the
dignity of nobility, he meets with no obstacle to his arriving at that eminence to which his
industry and innocence conduct him.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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