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But if I could only induce you to accept
any of my proposals, I think that I should confer such benefits on the State
that if I tried to describe them now, many of you would disbelieve them, as
being too good to be true. And yet even this too I consider no mean benefit, if
I accustom you to listen to the best advice. For he who would benefit the State,
Athenians, must first purge your ears, for they have been poisoned; so many lies
have you been accustomed to hear—anything, in fact, rather than the
best advice.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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