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For what man would have desisted from an honest course of
action by which he would have received the share of the money which the law
allows, and have rather chosen to make a trifling gain by a compromise and
render himself amenable to these laws, when, as I said just now, he might have
received half the sum involved in the denunciation? No man in the world would
have done so, men of the jury, unless he were conscious that he was bringing
baseless and malicious charges.
Demosthenes. 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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