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for so far am I from censuring as to declare it my belief that such
repayments are in the highest degree in the interest of the State, because you challenge
all men by such conduct to be champions of the people, when they observe that, even if
during their own lives envy shall stand in the way of their receiving merited honors, yet
their children, at any rate, will be sure to receive their due rewards at your hands.
Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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