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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
Aristophanes
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Aristophanes
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Comedy Writer
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[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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No man is really honest none of us is above the influence of gain.
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