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For what
sort of pretext, what decent and moderate excuse, can he show for his conduct?
Anger? Possibly that will be his plea. But whereas in cases where a sudden loss
of self-control has impelled a man even to inflict a wanton insult, it is open
to him to say that he has acted in anger; if, on the other hand, he is detected
in a continuous course of law-breaking, spread over many days, surely this is
far from a mere fit of anger and he stands convicted of a deliberate policy of
insult.
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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