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Do you think that this is an
examination and an inquiry into the truth, or an endeavour to fix a stain, and bring ruin upon
innocence? for there are many things of such a sort, O judges, that even if they deserve to be
neglected, as far as the individual whom they more immediately affect is concerned, are still
to be dreaded, because of the state of facts of which they betoken the existence, and because
of the precedents which they afford.
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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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