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I say it is your duty to serve cheerfully in person
and to reserve your censures till you are masters of the situation. Then,
judging all on their merits, assign praise to the deserving and punishment to
the wrongdoers, and render excuse impossible by mending your own deficiencies;
for you have no right to be severe critics of others' conduct, unless you first
set your own house in order.
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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