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Who is there,
men of the jury, who, on a charge like that, if he were sure of his innocence,
would not have accepted the torture? Then, by refusing the torture, he is
convicted of the theft. Now do you think that a man would be ashamed of the
reputation of having borne false witness, who did not shrink from being proved a
thief? Or that he would hesitate to give false witness at the request of
another, when, at no man's bidding, he voluntarily committed a fraud?
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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