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Perhaps you may say,
What then? Are you then endowed with all these qualifications?—I wish indeed
that I were; but at all events I have laboured with great industry from my very
childhood to attain them. And if I, on account of the importance and difficulty of such
a study have not been able to attain them, who have done nothing else all my life, how
far do you think that you must be distant from these qualities, which you have not only
never thought of before, but which even now, when you are entering on a stage that
requires them all, you can form no proper idea of, either as for their nature or as to
their importance?
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