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And lest any one should, perchance, marvel at this
being said by me, as the chief of his ability consists in something else, and not in this
system and practice of eloquence, he must be told that even we ourselves have never been
wholly devoted to this study. In truth, all the arts which concern the civilising and
humanising of men, have some link which binds them together, and are, as it were, connected by
some relationship to one another.
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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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