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the really good and
true man would narrate anything that he had to say, and another form unlike
this to which the man of the opposite birth and breeding would cleave and
which he would tell his story.” “What are these
forms?” he said. “A man of the right sort, I think, when
he comes in the course of his narrative to some word or act of a good man
will be willing to impersonate the other in reporting it, and will feel no
shame at that kind of mimicry, by preference imitating the good man
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