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For it would have been far more fitting to mitigate
their distress by letting them keep your gifts, than, while the distress
remains, to rob them of your bounty. In Heaven's name, I ask you, who is there
that will choose to do you service with the prospect of instant punishment by
your enemies, if he fails, and of a dubious gratitude from you, if he succeeds?
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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