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us the Roman people has many hostages which we must labour with all our might and by
every possible means to preserve uninjured, to defend, to keep in safety, and to redeem;
it has honour which we are desirous of; it has hope, which we constantly keep before our
eyes; it has reputation, acquired with much sweat and labour day and night; so that if
we prove our duty and industry in this cause, we may be able to preserve all those
things which I have mentioned safe and unimpaired by the favour of the Roman people; but
if we trip and stumble ever so little, we may at one moment lose the whole of those
things which have been collected one by one and by slow degrees.
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