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At this turning-point of his life, (for I place too
much reliance on your humanity and on your good sense to conceal anything,)
the fame of the young man stood trembling in the balance, owing to his new
acquaintance with this woman, and his unfortunate neighbourhood to her, and
his want of habituation to pleasure; for the desire of pleasure when it has
been too long pent up, and repressed, and chained down in early youth,
sometimes bursts forth on a sudden, and throws down every
barrier. But from this course of life, and from being in this way the
subject of common conversation, (though his excesses were not by any means
as great as report made them out to be;)—however, from this course
of life, I say, whatever it was, he soon emerged, and delivered himself
wholly from it and raised himself out of it, and he is now so far removed
from the discredit of any familiarity with that woman, that he is occupied
in warding off the attacks which are instigated against him by her enmity
and hatred.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden. 1891.
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