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As it is, by thrusting your law
into the statute-book clandestinely, hastily, and illegally, you have stripped
yourself of all claim to indulgence; for indulgence belongs to those who offend
unwittingly, not to those who have concerted a plot, as you are convicted of
doing. However, I shall have a word to say on that point presently.
Meantime,—read the next law.
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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