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Pray, men of Athens, do not scorn the needy
（their poverty is misfortune enough）, and scorn still less
those who choose to engage in trade and get their living by honest means. No;
listen to my words, and if I prove to you that my mother's relatives are such as
free-born people ought to be; that they deny upon oath the calumnious charges
which this man makes regarding her, and testify that they know her to be of
civic birth—they on their part being witnesses whom you yourselves
will acknowledge to be worthy of credence—, then, as you are bound to
do, cast your votes in my favor.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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