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But if
they are shameless enough to do this the clerk shall read you a challenge by
which you will catch them in the very act of perjury, and will know all the same
that this man did steal the deposition. And yet, men of Athens, a person who
would not shrink from being named as one who had stolen what was prejudicial to
another—what do you suppose he would do in his own interest?
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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