There were, he said, many brilliant geniuses, but you such was the affinity of our natures seemed to me to be the most easy to imitate, and the most worthy of imitation. Maxime imitabilis, maxime imitandus videbaris. Unconscious conceit could go no farther! And yet one can pardon this egregious vanity when one thinks of Pliny's other qualities.
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