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Excerpt from Plutarch's Lives for Boys and Girls: Being Selected Lives Freely Retold Tms book aims at presenting, for the reading of boys and girls, a version of certain selected narratives from the immortal Lives of Plutarch. In making the selection, the writer has been guided by the wish to choose those lives which appear to him to be most likely to interest young readers, and which also exhibit most clearly, either by example or con trast, the beauty of patriotism and the nobility of the manly virtues of justice, courage, fortitude, and temperance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.