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O how elegantly must his youth have been passed, when the only thing
which is imputed to him is one that there was not much harm in, and when
even that is found to be false. He released some one from prison illegally.
The man you allude to was discharged out of ignorance—discharged,
as you know, at the request of an intimate friend and a most virtuous young
man; and the same man was arrested subsequently again. And these, and no
others, are all the faults which you can discover to attribute to him
throughout the whole of his life, while at the same time you affect to doubt
his virtue, and religion, and integrity.
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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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