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Whoever Has Even Once Become Notorious By Base Fraud, Even If He Speaks The Truth, Gains No Belief.
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Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks
the truth, gains no belief.
-- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.)
-- Book i, Fable 10, 1
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