excusatio istaec, etiamsi fuisset vera, transierat, quia post terminatum libellum, qui parum cultior est, reliquas denuo litteras usuali, licet accuratus mihi melior non sit, sermone contexo; non enim tanti est poliri formulas editione carituras.
This excuse, even if it had ever been true, had now ceased to hold good, for after finishing my little book, which has some slight pretension to polish, I am making a change and compiling my remaining letters in ordinary speech (although in my case elaborate embellishment might be no improvement); for it is not worth while to polish phrases which will never be published.
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