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And when anyone of our common friends asks him why he
refuses to pay me, when he has sworn to share everything equally and when the
articles of agreement are still in custody, he asserts that I have broken the
agreement and have treated him outrageously, and he states that I have all along
been speaking and acting in opposition to him. These are the excuses he offers.
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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