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Furthermore,
while the majority of men, when young, seek a reputation for prudence by keeping
silent, you are so superior to them in natural gifts that you gain men's good
opinion of you not less by your speech and demeanor in casual company than by
all your other merits; so great is the grace and charm of your words whether in
jest or in earnest. For you are ingenuous without doing wrong, clever without
being malicious, kindly without sacrifice of independence, and, taking all in
all, like a child of Virtue sired by Love.1
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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