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You both ought to have great experience in the affairs of
the republic, and you have. When did you ever see a decree framed in this
manner? or in what resolution of the senate passed on such occasions. (and they
are innumerable), did you ever hear of its being decreed that the letters had
been well drawn up? And that expression did not—as is often the case
with other men—fall from you by chance, but you brought it with you
written down, deliberated on, and carefully meditated on.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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