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The man who has furnished the facts with which the
speeches deal ought in strict justice to bear that responsibility, and not the
man who has devoted thought and care to lay an honest case before you today.
That is what I am doing, men of Athens; to that I plead guilty. As for Meidias, he has probably
never in his life troubled himself about honesty, for if it had entered his head
even for a moment to consider such a thing, he would not have missed it so
completely in practice.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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