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Yet you dismiss those causes, and put the blame upon
me, who only took part in politics by the side of my fellow-citizens here,
although you must be conscious that a part, if not the whole, of your invective
is addressed to all of them, and particularly to yourself. If I had held sole
and despotic authority when I offered my counsels, it would have been open to
you other orators to incriminate me:
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