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Stop right
there. There is not a person in the world, I presume, who would have proceeded
to give this testimony, unless he had been present when my father drew up the
will. Instead, he would have said at once, “How do we know if there is
any will of Pasio's?”—and he would have demanded that
Phormio write, as in the beginning of the challenge: “If I declared
that the document was not a copy of the will which Phormio stated that Pasio had
left,”—not “of the will of Pasio.” For
this was to testify that there was a will （which was their
intention）, the other that Phormio said that there was. And, I take it,
there is a world of difference between a thing's being so, and Phormio's saying
that it is.
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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