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There is this reason, also,
that perhaps the request to undertake this cause was made to the others so that they
thought they could comply or refuse without prejudice to their duty; but those men
applied to me who have the greatest weight with me by reason of their friendship with
me, of the kindnesses they have done me, and of their own dignity; whose kindness to me
I could not be ignorant of whose authority I could not despise, whose desires I could
not neglect.
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