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Charles Sumner, his complete works, volume 01 (of 20)

Note 161 — ORATION.

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Terence, taught, perhaps, by his own bitter experience as slave, has given expression to truth almost Christian, when he says,—

"Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto."

Heauton., Act I. Sc. 1.

And in the Andria,—

"Facile omnes perferre ac pati, Cum quibus erat cunque una: iis sese dedere: Eorum obsequi studiis: advorsus nemini: Nunquam præponens se illis."

Act I. Sc. 1.

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