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Your enthusiasm, I
allow, is worthy of all praise and such as a man of goodwill toward the State might pray
for; but the more intense your enthusiasm the more foresighted you should now be to employ
it as you ought. For you know that no choice of a course of action justifies itself unless
the end it achieves be beneficial and honorable. I am sure I once heard here in your
presence, men of Athens, a man who was thought
to be lacking neither in sense nor in experience of war.
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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