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George F. Hoar: “I have no doubt a Roman boy two hundred years before Christ, or an Athenian boy four hundred years before Christ, lived…”

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I have no doubt a Roman boy two hundred years before Christ, or an Athenian boy four hundred years before Christ, lived quite as well as I did, if not better.
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George F. Hoar
Massachusetts

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Hoar compares his living conditions to those of boys in ancient Rome and Athens.

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