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“Now the good procurer would teach only the words that tend to make one attractive, would he not?”“Certainly.”“Which one would be the better?” he continued, “the one who could make people attractive to a single person or the one who could make them attractive to many?”This question brought a division; some said, “Clearly the one who could make them attractive to a great many”; the others merely repeated, “Certainly.”
Xenophon. Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 4. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London. 1979.
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