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All this I
wonder at, and at another thing besides. I wonder that no one here, men of
Athens, can count up how many
years you have been at war with Philip, and what you have been doing all that
long time. Surely you must know that all that time you have been hesitating,
hoping that some other state would take action, accusing and sitting in
judgement on one another, and still hoping, hoping—doing in fact
pretty much what you are doing now.
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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