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Book III   Proposition 4
Now
    each of the angles FEA, FEB was proved right;
therefore
    the angle FEA is equal to the angle FEB,
the less to the greater: which is impossible.

Therefore
    AC, BD do not bisect one another.

Being what it was required to prove.
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