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How is this? Ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence?
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PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
ambrose bierce— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
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
