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For you all know, I fancy, that
men borrow with few witnesses, but, when they pay, they take care to have many
witnesses present, that they may win a reputation for honesty in business
dealings. But in your case, when you were paying back both the debt and the
interest on both voyages, though you had used the money for the outward voyage
only, and were adding thirteen minae besides, should you not have caused many
witnesses to be present? Had you done so, there is not a single merchant who
would have been held in higher esteem than you.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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