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Seriously, is
anyone here so foolish as not to see that our negligence will transfer the war
from Chalcidice to Attica? Yet if that comes to pass, I am
afraid, men of Athens, that just as
men who borrow money recklessly at high interest enjoy a temporary accommodation
only to forfeit their estates in the end, so we may find that we have paid a
heavy price for our indolence, and because we consult our own pleasure in
everything, may hereafter come to be forced to do many of the dfficult things
for which we had no liking, and may finally endanger our possessions here in
Attica itself.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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