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What is there more holy, what is
there more carefully fenced round with every description of religious
respect, than the house of every individual citizen? here are his altars,
here are his hearths, here are his household gods: here all his sacred
rites, all his religious ceremonies are preserved. This is the asylum of
every one, so holy a spot that it is impious to drag any one from it.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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