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The Clouds is a 423 BCE play by Aristophanes, originally written in ancient Greek. At the time, professional intellectuals called sophists taught customers rhetorical techniques to use in public speaking, along with providing instruction in other subjects.

In the play, Aristophanes satirizes sophists as teaching people to speak dishonestly, as seen when the character       
Which choice most effectively uses a quotation from a translation of The Clouds to illustrate the claim?
Strepsiades encourages his son to learn to be a sophist, saying, "If you have any concern for your father's patrimony, become one of them."
A
Pheidippides says, after taking lessons from a sophist, "How pleasant it is to be acquainted with new and clever things, and to be able to despise the established laws!"
B
Strepsiades, taking lessons from a sophist, says he wants to become "a fabricator of falsehoods, inventive of words, a practiced knave in lawsuits.... a fox, a sharper, a slippery knave, a dissembler, a slippery fellow, an impostor."
C
Socrates, a sophist, says to a potential customer, "I wish to briefly learn from you if you are possessed of a good memory."
D