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Or
because, as long as the present laws and constitution stand, he cannot clear
himself of these reproaches? Then why is he well-disposed to you? It is because,
in his own words, he is impudent. Why is the impudent man so called save
because, being lost to a sense of shame, he dares to state what is not, and
never will be, true? And that is precisely what the defendant does.
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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