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The Roman people, Cato said, fixed the market value not only of dyes, but also of behaviour.
‘For,’ said he,
‘as dyers most affect that dye which they see pleases you, so your young men learn and practice that which wins your praise.’
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 2.
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