Book 6
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Ath. but it is truly, as I think, something more than the half, and no man has ever yet commended as it deserves a beginning that is well made.
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Clin. Very true.
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Ath. Let us not then wittingly leave this first step unmentioned, nor fail to make it quite clear to ourselves how it is to be brought about. I, however, am by no means fertile in resource, save for one statement which, in view of the present situation, it is both necessary and useful to make.
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Clin. What statement is that?
