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Meet him on this ground: that all men, when they make agreements with one
another, seal the articles and deposit them with persons whom they can trust,
for this very purpose, that, if a dispute arises between them, they may refer to
the document and so settle the point at issue. But when a man, after doing away
with the source of accurate knowledge, undertakes to deceive you with words, how
can you with justice put any confidence in him?
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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