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How then
do such families live? Where there is a father and grown-up sons and possibly
also grandchildren, there are bound to be many divergent wishes; for youth and
age do not talk or act in the same way. Nevertheless whatever the young men do,
if they are modest, they do in such a way as to avoid notice; or if this is
impossible, at any rate they make it that such was their intention. The elders
in their turn, if they see any lack of moderation in spending or drinking or
amusement, manage to see it without showing that they have seen it. The result
is that everything that their various natures suggest is done, and done
satisfactorily.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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