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Assuredly it was not the
duty of such a citizen to abandon the cause of his country, to take the hire of
her adversaries, to wait on the occasions, not of Athens, but of her enemies. It was not his
duty to look with an evil eye upon a man who had made it his business to support
or propose measures worthy of our traditions, and was resolved to stand by such
measures; nor to treasure vindictively the memory of private annoyances. Nor was
it his duty to hold his peace dishonestly and deceptively, as you so often do.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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