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What is
my object in treating this matter so fully? For I protest in Heaven's name that
I have no ambition to incur your hostility. It is that each one of you,
Athenians, may know and realize this—that in state affairs, as well as
in private life, daily indifference and carelessness do not make their result
felt at once on each occasion when duty is neglected, but come home to us when
the total result of our policy is seen.
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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