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Oh, men of Athens, what a vile
monster is the calumniator, gathering malice from everywhere, always backbiting!
But this fellow is by very nature a spiteful animal, absolutely incapable of
honesty or generosity; this monkey of melodrama, this bumpkin tragedy-king, this
pinchbeck orator! What use has all your cleverness ever been to your country?
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