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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Yet how can this be? Because this silence betokened, nay, this silence was, not silence at all, but most eloquent denial!
Not so. Not so, Master Secretary. The maxim is "Qui tacet consentire": the maxim of the law is "Silence gives consent". If therefore you wish to construe what my silence betokened, you must construe that I consented, not that I denied.
Is that in fact what the world construes from it? Do you pretend that is what you wish the world to construe from it?
The world must construe according to its wits; this court must construe according to the law.
(, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 13:40, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)
(, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 13:47, Reply)
although it sounded familiar and I had seen the film ages ago.
(, Thu 3 Nov 2011, 13:49, Reply)
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