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“What, then, do you mean? Do you,” some one will say,
perhaps, “claim that a man shall be judged innocent, just because you have defended
him?” But I, O judges, not only claim nothing for myself to which any one can
object, but I even give up and abandon pretensions which are granted and allowed me by every
one. I am not living in such a republic—I have not exposed my life to all sorts of
dangers for the sake of my country at such a time,—they whom I have defeated are not
so utterly extinct,—nor are those whom I have preserved so grateful, that I should
think it safe to attempt to assume more than all my enemies and enviers may endure.
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M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1856.
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