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What best describes the tone of following sentence from Machiavelli's The Prince? “Hence it is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or not according to necessity.”

a) careful
b) nonchalant
c) emotional
d) humorous

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Humorous because the topic is talking about fighting
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Answer:

humorous

Step-by-step explanation:

he is making light of the topic of a dangerous fight by joking that a prince should learn what to do by knowing what not to do

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