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Apart from these two possibilities, there is a suspicion, and by no
means to your credit, that, although you have come to the assembly under obligation to
choose the best plan on the basis of what shall be said, instead, you will be found,
before reaching a judgement on the basis of the speeches, to have been convinced of
something in your own minds, and this so strongly that you are not even willing to hear
anything to the contrary.
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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