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But since that madman has thought that he
should find a ready road to your attention by blaming the sentiments that I
in the last few days have expressed in the senate concerning the republic, I
will deviate from the natural arrangement of my speech, and I will make a
reply to what I will not call the speech of that furious fellow, (for that
is more than he is capable of,) but to his abuse, that being an employment
which he has fortified himself in the practice of by his own intolerable bad
temper, and by the length of time that he has been allowed to indulge it
with impunity.
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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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