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And he too, is fortunate whose safety
is now the cause of scarcely less joy to all other men than it will be to
himself when he is informed of it. And this honour has deservedly and most
rightfully fallen to his lot. For who is superior to him either in nobleness
of birth, or in honesty, or in zeal for virtuous studies, or in purity of
life, or in any description whatever of excellence.
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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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