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Hesiod Quotes: So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
         

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.


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