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In truth, I have seen and heard of many men in this city, not only men who
had just tasted this kind of life with the edge of their lips, and touched
it, as people say, with the tips of their fingers, but men who had devoted
the whole of their youth to pleasures, who have at last emerged from them,
and have be taken themselves to prudent courses, and have become sensible
and eminent citizens. For by the common consent of all men, some indulgence
is given to this age, and nature itself suggests desires to youth; and if
they break out without injuring any one else a life, or overturning any one
else's house, they are generally accounted endurable and pardonable.
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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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