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For myself, men
of the jury, deeply indignant though I am at what I have suffered, I should feel
no less indignation at this, and should count myself the victim of a fresh
outrage, if you will pardon the strong expression, if this fellow Conon shall be deemed by you to be speaking
the truth about us, and you are to be so misguided as to assume that a man bears
the character which he claims for himself or which someone else accuses him of
possessing, and respectable people are to derive no benefit from their daily
life and conduct.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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