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It is not fair that those legislators should enjoy a popularity which has cost
the community dear, but that the patriotic reformer should be penalized by the
odium of proposals by which we may all be benefited. Until you have set this
right, Athenians, do not expect to find anyone so influential among you that he
can break these laws with impunity, or so wanting in discretion as to run
open-eyed into danger.
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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