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And it is in a way inevitable
that he should now be acting thus. For observe! He wants to rule, and he has
made up his mind that you, and you only, bar the way. He has long injured you;
of nothing is he more conscious than of that. For it is by holding the cities
that are really yours that he retains safe possession of all the rest;
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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