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Then if a man were to shrink from state business though capable of discharging it with advantage to the state and honour to himself, wouldn’t it be reasonable to think him a coward?
Perhaps; but why ask me that?
Because I fancy that you shrink from work that is within your powers, work in which it is your duty as a citizen to take a hand.
What makes you think so?
Then if a man were to shrink from state business though capable of discharging it with advantage to the state and honour to himself, wouldn’t it be reasonable to think him a coward?
Perhaps; but why ask me that?
Because I fancy that you shrink from work that is within your powers, work in which it is your duty as a citizen to take a hand.
What makes you think so?
Memorabilia. Xenophon. Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1923.
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