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Such is the affair about which you are deliberating; therefore, if you please, for Heaven’s sake! defer it, and first consider how you are prepared for it. Observe what Hector says to Andromache,— War is the sphere for all men, and for me. Homer, Iliad, vi. 492, 493.—H.
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Thus conscious was he of his own qualifications and of her weakness.
Concerning such as read and dispute ostentatiously.
