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“Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 88dc545f6ceee3fc045fd080bbf7c5ad067217edb7a929ad79504387f8d66d25
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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