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6Spies, they say, and eavesdroppers get hold of such rumours, and then—actuated sometimes by enmity and sometimes by resentment, in some cases because they have received money from the foes of their victims, in other cases because they have received none from the victims themselves—concoct many falsehoods, reporting not only that such and such persons have committed some outrage or are intending to commit it, but even that when so-and -so made such and such a remark, so-and -so heard it and was silent, a second person laughed, and a third burst into tears.
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