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He never spoke, he never uttered a word of that
speech; none of you heard it; he only vented idle menaces. The reason is that he
was conscious of guilt; he cowered like a slave before those words; his thoughts
did not approach them but recoiled from them, arrested by his evil conscience.
Mere vague invective and abuse there was no one to stop.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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