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You, therefore,
justly prefer this day to all the splendid and innumerable congratulations
which at different times have been addressed to you. For this exploit is
your own alone; the other achievements which have been performed by you as
general, were great indeed, but still they were performed by the agency of a
great and numerous band of comrades. But in this exploit you
are the general, and you are your own sole comrade: and the act itself is
such that no lapse of time will ever put an end to your monuments and
trophies; for there is nothing which is wrought by manual labour which time
will not sometime or other impair or destroy;
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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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