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I do not perambulate the marketplace, gaily exulting
in the good fortune of the alien, holding out my right hand, and telling the
glad tidings to anyone I think likely to send word over yonder. When I hear of
my country's successes, I do not shudder, and sigh, and hang down my head, like
those blasphemers, who traduce Athens, forgetting that thereby they are traducing themselves;
who turn their eyes abroad, and, when the alien has prospered by the distresses
of Greece, applaud his good fortune,
and declare that we must try to preserve it for ever.
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