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How is this? Ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence?
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
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PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

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— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

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How is this? Ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence?


— To Mithridates VI of Pontus, at a peace conference, as quoted in "Sylla" by Plutarch in Plutarch's Lives as translated by John Dryden

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