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That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Favour, Gang, Refrain
"Philippics". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, 44 BC.
That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!