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But he went still further in making him presents and
loans. And he lent him not his own money only, but also that of his friends.
A very foolish thing to do—who denies it? at all events, who is
there who does not now remind him of it? How could one think that a sensible
proceeding which has turned out ill? But it is difficult not to carry out to
the end a line of conduct which one has begun with sanguine hopes.
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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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