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There you have the truth spoken with all freedom, simply in goodwill
and for the best—no speech packed by flattery with mischief and
deceit, and intended to put money into the speaker's pocket and the control of
the State into our enemies' hands. Either, then, you must abandon these habits
of yours, or you must throw the blame for all our failures on no one but
yourselves.
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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