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 1 Intro|         had heard them from the best authority. Aristodemus,
 2 Intro|      fairest and blessedest and best of the gods, and also the
 3 Intro| subjects; he is the fairest and best himself, and the cause of
 4 Intro|    cause of what is fairest and best in others; he makes men
 5 Intro|       Essays, 8:—‘Certainly the best works and of greatest merit
 6 Intro|      attested to us by the very best authority. The madman Apollodorus,
 7 Intro|       has the corruption of the best been sometimes thought to
 8 Text |       Love. Let him give us the best which he can; and Phaedrus,
 9 Text |          they would be the very best governors of their own city,
10 Text |       same: for he has done his best to show that he would give
11 Text |    satisfy them or not; and the best physician is he who is able
12 Text |       of all the gods he is the best friend of men, the helper
13 Text |         they are themselves the best of boys and youths, because
14 Text |     happy. And if this would be best of all, the best in the
15 Text |       would be best of all, the best in the next degree and under
16 Text |   because he is the fairest and best? And he is the fairest:
17 Text |     ability I must try to do my best. In the first place he is
18 Text |      that he is the fairest and best in himself, and the cause
19 Text |    cause of what is fairest and best in all other things. And
20 Text |         of gods and men, leader best and brightest: in whose
21 Text |       speaker was to choose the best and set them forth in the
22 Text |       and set them forth in the best manner. And I felt quite
23 Text |      him appear the fairest and best of all to those who know
24 Text |         manner which he thought best. Then, he added, let me
25 Text |     please to give me your very best attention:~‘He who has been
26 Text |         consider what you think best for you and me.’ ‘That is
27 Text |       consider and act as seems best about this and about other