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For you hold that such people not only wrong those who do
business with them, but also do a public injury to your mart; and you are right
in holding this view. For the resources required by those who engage in trade
come not from those who borrow, but from those who lend; and neither ship nor
shipowner nor passenger can put to sea, if you take away the part contributed by
those who lend.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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