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“No, only for those that yearned for the fame that virtue gives.”“You mean, I take it, that the spell must be fitted to the listener, so that he may not take the praise for mockery.”“Yes; for to praise one for his beauty, his stature and his strength who is conscious that he is short, ugly and puny, is the way to repel him and make him dislike you more.”“Do you know any other spells?”
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 4. E. C. Marchant. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1923.
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