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If I must deal with that
subject, I say that, if my policy and my principles are considered, they will be
found to resemble in spirit and purpose those of the venerated names of
antiquity. Yours are like those of the men who maligned them: for it is certain
that, even in their days, there were men who were always carping at the living
and commending the dead—a spiteful vocation, and just like yours. You
tell me I am not at all like those great men.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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