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1 3| Athenian. Any more than our pattern wise man, whom we exhibited
2 4|     law made after the same pattern, if I had to choose. But
3 5| this we are to look for the pattern of the state, and to cling
4 5|   future, he who exhibits a pattern of that at which he aims,
5 7|    Cleinias. I mean to what pattern should he look as his guide
6 7|     not wholly in want of a pattern, for when I consider the
7 7|   cannot imagine any better pattern than this which the guardian