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| 11 | 400 | Moreover, I regarded them as View more quotes about presumably">presumably in my best interest. |
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| 11 | 397 | "Abstention," recorded the scribe. |
| 11 | 398 | I saw no reason, at the moment, to commit myself to the programs of Samos and the council. |
| 11 | 399 | It seemed clear to me that his proposals would be accepted. |
| 11 | 400 | Moreover, I regarded them as presumably in my best interest. |
| 11 | 401 | But, by abstaining, my intentions and allegiances might perhaps remain usefully ambiguous. |
| 11 | 402 | The abstention, it seemed to me, might well give me a wider eventual latitude of action. |
| 11 | 403 | Besides, I told myself, it was still rather early to determine on which curule chairs the tarns of power might alight. |