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that you1 have in mind. For we have long
been lying in wait for you, expecting that you would say something both of
the procreation of children and their bringing up,2 and
would explain the whole matter of the community of women and children of
which you speak. We think that the right or wrong management of this makes a
great difference, all the difference in the world,3 in the constitution of a state; so
now, since you are beginning on another constitution before sufficiently
defining this, we are firmly resolved,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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