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And perhaps in undertaking this cause I may have
acted rashly, in obedience to the impulses of youth; but since I have once undertaken
it, although forsooth every sort of terror and every possible danger were to threaten me
on all sides, yet I will support and encounter them. I have deliberately resolved not
only to say everything which I think is material to the cause, but to say it also
willingly, boldly, and freely. Nothing can ever be of such importance in my mind that
fear should be able to put a greater constraint on me than a regard to good faith.
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