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Our chief ground
for alarm is that this man, so unscrupulous, so quick to seize his opportunity,
now yielding a point when it suits his purpose, now threatening—and
his threats may well carry conviction—now misrepresenting us and our
failure to intervene, may divert to his own purpose and wrest from us something
of vital importance.
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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