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Well then, I ask you, is
not simplicity of life essential if we are to be able to
endure the toil entailed by study? What can we
hope to get from lust or luxury? Is not the desire
to win praise one of the strongest stimulants to a
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passion for literature? But does that mean that we
are to suppose that praise is an object of concern to
bad men? Surely every one of my readers must by
now have realised that oratory is in the main concerned with the treatment of what is just and
honourable? Can a bad and unjust man speak on
such themes as the dignity of the subject demands?
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