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Now, though the living kinsmen of these dead deserve our
sympathy, bereaved of such brave men and divorced from close and affectionate
association, and though the life of our native land is desolate and filled with
tears and mourning, nevertheless these dead by a just calculation are
happy.1 First of all, bartering little for much, a brief
time for all eternity, they leave behind them an ageless fame2
Demosthenes. 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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