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Certainly it is reasonable for you to feel angry after these unhappy experiences; but to
vent your anger, not upon the parties responsible, but upon everybody in turn, ceases to
be either reasonable or right: because those who are in no way responsible for past events
but can tell you how an improvement may be effected for the future would rightly meet with
gratitude, not hostility, from you. If you treat these men with untimely irritation, you
will make them hesitate to rise and speak.
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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