Plato, Phaedrus, section 236e

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[236e] by what god? By this plane tree? I take my solemn oath that unless you produce the discourse in the very presence of this plane tree, I will never read you another or tell you of another.

Socrates
Oh! Oh! You wretch! How well you found out how to make a lover of discourse do your will!

Phaedrus
Then why do you try to get out of it?

Socrates
I won't any more, since you have taken this oath; for how could I give up such pleasures?

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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