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They say that that able
man, Marcus Antonius, was accustomed to say, “that he had never written a speech, in
order that, if at any time he had said anything which was not desirable, he might be able to
deny that he had said it.” Just as if whatever were said or pleaded by us was not
retained in men's memories, if we did not ourselves commit it to writing.
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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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