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Recollect, O judges, with how much pains you are accustomed to labour, considering not only
what you are going to state in your evidence, but even what words you shall use, lest any word
should appear to be used too moderately, or lest on the other hand any expression should
appear to have escaped you from any private motive. You take pains even so to mould your
countenances, that no suspicion of any private motive may be excited; that when you come
forward there may be a sort of silent opinion of your modesty and scrupulousness, and that,
when you leave the box, that reputation may appear to have been carefully preserved and
retained.
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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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