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Whoever will study them, men of Athens, without jealousy, will find that they were rightly
planned and honestly executed; that the proper opportunity for each several
measure was never neglected, or ignored, or thrown away by me: and that nothing
within the compass of one man's ability or forethought was left undone. If the
superior power of some deity or of fortune, or the incompetence of commanders,
or the wickedness of traitors, or all these causes combined, vitiated and at
last shattered the whole enterprise,—is Demosthenes guilty?
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