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I am also told, men of the jury, by those who are
older than I, that it is proper that in no case whatever should pardon be shown
to one who transgresses the laws, but if pardon is to be shown, it should not be
to those who are habitual offenders or to those who betray the laws for a bribe
(surely not that!) but to those who through their own
inexperience unintentionally transgress some provision of the law. No man, I
take it, would say that Theocrines here belongs to this latter class, but on the
contrary that there is no provision of the law with which he is not acquainted.
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