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Nay; it is absolutely certain that the property left by my
father was much more than this, and that it is all in your possession. It is
because you are plainly proved to have made havoc of it that you have the
audacity to make up such falsehoods. Sometimes you refer the responsibility to
one another; again you mutually accuse one another of having received funds; you
claim to have received but little, yet you have made reports of large
expenditures.
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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