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“Then if a man were to shrink from state business though capable of discharging it with advantage to the state and honour to himself, wouldn't it be reasonable to think him a coward?”“Perhaps; but why ask me that?”“Because I fancy that you shrink from work that is within your powers, work in which it is your duty as a citizen to take a hand.”“What makes you think so?
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 4. E. C. Marchant. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1923.
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