"Whoever has even once become notorious by base fraud, even if he speaks the truth, gains no belief."
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Book I, fable 10, line 1.
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Phaedrus (fabulist)
Gaius Julius Phaedrus (c. 15 BC – c. 50 AD) was a Roman fabulist, by birth a Macedonian and lived in the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius and Claudius.
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