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What is more, you caused such a revolution
in men's minds that, though many keep insisting that nothing in equestrian
contests affords such delight as a crash, and seem to speak the truth, in your
case all the spectators, on the contrary, were afraid that some such accident
might befall you. Such goodwill and eagerness for your success did your
personality awaken in them.
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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