Dialogue

 1 Repub|     Then why in the case of lesser offices do men never take
 2 Repub|   not as a good, but as the lesser evil, and honored by reason
 3 Repub|     and then proceed to the lesser -this would have been thought
 4 Repub|     from the greater to the lesser and comparing them. ~That,
 5 Repub|     may find a model of the lesser in the greater, I said;
 6 Repub|   invent for themselves any lesser rules which their predecessors
 7 Repub|   are glad to be honored by lesser and meaner people-but honor
 8 Repub|    one to think only of how lesser sums may be turned into
 9 Repub|    I said-there are several lesser ones: In such a state of
10 Repub| into this is fitted another lesser one, and another, and another,