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As for
discreetness of conduct, it is my privilege to pass the finest of compliments,
namely, that though such youthfulness readily invites scandal, it has been your
lot to be praised instead. For so far from overstepping the mark, you have
chosen to live more prudently than is expected of your years. Of this the most
convincing evidence is your deportment toward others; for although many make
your acquaintance, and reveal characters of every kind and sort, and all seek to
entice you into intimacies, you have so managed such people that all are content
to feel friendship for you.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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