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Nothing was ever more acceptable to any one,
than my brother is to me. I was not so aware of this when I enjoyed his society, as I became
when I was deprived of it, and after you again restored me to him and him to me. His own
private estate is a pleasure to every one. The relics of my fortune, which I have recovered,
give me now greater delight than they used to give when they were unimpaired. Friendship,
familiar intercourse, acquaintance with my neighbours, the dependence of one's clients on one,
even games and days of festival, are things the delights of which I have learnt to appreciate
better by being deprived of them than I did while I was enjoying them.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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