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and if you, on the contrary, have proposed a law
that the people shall not be permitted to bestow on any man any part of what is
their own, how can you be said to have read or understood the laws of Solon? You
make the nation barren of would-be patriots by proclaiming unmistakably that
those who benefit us shall gain nothing by it.
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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