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But I hear that they are going to shun arguments based upon the
facts of the case and upon the laws, and are prepared to assert that a large
estate was left them and that they were defrauded of it; and that they will
advance as a proof of this the large sum asked as damages in their original
suit, and they will wail over their orphanhood, and will go through the
guardianship accounts. These and such-like points are the ones upon which they
have fixed their trust, and by which they hope to beguile 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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