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Well then, if
people break into houses and beat those who come in their way, do you suppose
they would scruple to swear falsely on a scrap of paper in the interest of one
another—these men who are partners in such great and such reckless
malignity and villainy and impudence and outrage? For I certainly think that all
these terms fit the deeds they are in the habit of doing. And yet there are
other deeds of theirs more dreadful even than these, though I should be unable
to find out all who have suffered from them.
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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