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I, for my part, do
not regard a money-lender as a wrongdoer, although certain of the class may
justly be detested by you, seeing that they make a trade of it, and have no
thought of pity or of anything else, except gain. Since I have myself often
borrowed money, and not merely lent it to the plaintiff, I know these people
well; and I do not like them, either but, by Zeus, I do not defraud them, nor
bring malicious charges against them.
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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