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Now, men of
Athens, with regard to such
public services as it is the duty of everyone to discharge, both with person and
with property, that there should be a disposition to avoid them is not
right—indeed, far from it—but still it does admit of some
excuse notwithstanding; but to refuse even to listen to all that you ought to
hear and all that you are bound to decide deserves, at such a time as this,
absolute condemnation.
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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