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But what is to come of it? If I lend money
to so-and-so, am I for this reason also to lose my suit? Surely not. The
plaintiff cannot point out any baseness or villainy attaching to me, nor does a
single one among you, many as you are, know any such thing against me. As to
these other qualities, each one of us, I take it, is as nature happened to make
him; and to fight against nature, when one has these characteristics, is no easy
task （for otherwise we should not differ from one another）;
though to recognize them in looking on another and to criticize them is easy.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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