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Somebody asked him for what purpose he had chosen to bring
forward such a proposal, and tried to explain to him that he had a difficult
task before him in this trial. His reply was: “You talk like a fool.
Androtion will be there to help me; and he has thought out at leisure such fine
arguments on every point, that I am quite certain that no harm will come to me
from this indictment.”
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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