Letter 1001: Lest my interruption of correspondence be counted against me as a fault, I prefer to be prompt in my duty rather...
Lest my interruption of correspondence be counted against me as a fault, I prefer to be prompt in my duty rather than delay with long expectation of reciprocity; especially since for parents not according to the scale nor...
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Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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