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What! talk about bygones today? It is as
though a physician visiting his patients should never open his mouth, or tell
them how to get rid of their complaint, so long as they are ill; but, as soon as
one of them dies, and the obsequies are celebrated, should follow the corpse to
the grave, and deliver his prescription at last from the tombstone:
“If our departed friend had done this or that, he would never have
died!” You lunatic! what is the use of talking now?
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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