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and yet we have been robbed
of our own soil, we have wasted on unnecessary objects more than fifteen hundred
talents, our statesmen in peace have lost us the allies we gained in war, and we
have provided a training-ground for this formidable rival. If not, let someone
come forward and tell me who but ourselves has made Philip powerful.
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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